Wacław Teofil Stachiewicz (1894-1973), brigadier general of the Polish Army. He studied geology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Lvov University. In 1912, he joined the Active Combat Association and the Riflemen's Association, where he graduated from the non-commissioned officer school and the lower officer school. After the outbreak of the First World War, he joined the Polish Legions. In March 1917, he completed the General Staff Officers' Course at the Inspectorate of the Polish Armed Forces in Warsaw, and in August he was conscripted into the Austrian Army with the rank of sergeant and posted to the Italian front. He deserted and made his way to Warsaw, where in the reborn Polish Army he held a number of very important posts, including that of chief of Branch I and deputy chief of staff of the Warsaw General District Command, liaison officer of the Polish Army Supreme Command at the Polish Army Third Corps Command in France, and head of a division in Department I of the Ministry of Military Affairs. During the Soviet offensive in May 1920, he became chief of Branch I, and then of Branch II, of General Sosnkowski's Reserve Army Staff. There, he also served as an operations officer. On 26 January 1935, at the request of Minister of Military Affairs Józef Piłsudski, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General by Polish President Ignacy Mościcki. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army. At the outbreak of war, he took up the post of Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Marshal Śmigły-Rydz. He crossed the Romanian border, where he was interned at Stanic-Prahova near Ploeszti. However, he escaped and through Bucharest made his way to Yugoslavia and then on to Algiers. From there he got to London, where he stayed until the end of the war without any assignment. In December 1948, he moved to Canada. He settled in Montreal with his wife and children, who had been there for several years. There he died of a heart attack.