Jerzy Grobicki (1891-1972); Imperial and Royal Army cavalry officer, soldier in the Foreign Legion from 1906 to 1907. In 1908, as a Serbian partisan in Macedonia, he fought against the Turks. In Austria, he was a student at the Cavalry Officers' School at the Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt. After completing his studies, he became a professional cavalry officer in the Austrian army. A participant in the struggle for Polish independence in World War I and the war against the Bolsheviks, he was a "Zavonian". After graduating from the Training Course at the Higher War College in Warsaw and receiving a General Staff Officer's Diploma, he was assigned to the General Cavalry Inspectorate in Warsaw. In the September campaign, he became commander of the Borderland Cavalry Brigade. From 27 September 1939 to 25 August 1941, he was in Soviet captivity. After his release, he was accepted into the Polish Armed Forces and appointed deputy commander of the 5th Infantry Division. In 1942, he became an officer of the Polish Army Command in the Middle East, then commander of the 6th Lvov Rifle Brigade and liaison officer to the commander of the 2nd Polish Corps to the French Corps. In March 1945, he was assigned to the Command of Military Units in the Middle East. Later he was military attaché to the government of Chiang Kai-shek. Until 1947, he was commander of Camp Quassasin in Egypt. He then lived in exile in Canada. Awarded, among others: twice with the Order of Virtuti Militari (gold and silver cross) and four times with the Cross of Valour. He died in Toronto and was buried in the veterans' quarters at Holy Cross Cemetery in Toronto.