Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko
- Birth Date:
- 19.01.1893
- Death date:
- 20.06.1982
- Length of life:
- 89
- Days since birth:
- 47939
- Years since birth:
- 131
- Days since death:
- 15280
- Years since death:
- 41
- Extra names:
- Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko
- Categories:
- General, Legionary, Nobleman, landlord, WWI participant, WWII participant
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Warszawa, Powązki Military Cemetery
Zygmunt Piotr Bohusz-Szyszko (1893 in Chełm – 1982 in London) was a Polish general. During World War I he served in the Imperial Russian army.
In 1940, he was Commanding Officer Polish Independent Highland Brigade (Samodzielna Brygada Strzelcow Podhalanskich) during the Battle of Narvik in the Norwegian campaign. The forces under his command succeeded in capturing the Ankenes peninsula during May 1940.
Career
- -1931 Commanding Officer 58th Regiment
- 1931-1934 Commanding Border Defence Regiment Głębokie
- 1934-1938 Deputy General Officer Commanding Border Defence Corps
- 1938-1939 Commanding Officer Infantry 1st Division
- 1939 Commanding Officer Infantry 16th Division
- 1939-1940 Commanding Officer 1st Mountain Brigade, Norway
- 1941-1942 Head Polish Military Mission Moscow
- 1941-1943 Chief of Staff Polish Forces in Soviet Union
- 1942 General Officer Commanding 5th Division, Soviet Union
- 1943-1945 Deputy General Officer Commanding II Polish Corps, Italy
- 1945-1946 General Officer Commanding Army of the East
- 1945-1946 General Officer Commanding II Polish Corps, Italy
- 1976-1980 General Inspector of the Armed Forces
Awards and decorations
- Wound Decoration — six times
- Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari (also Silver Cross)
- Officer's Cross of the Polonia Restituta
- Cross of Valour — four times
- Gold Cross of Merit with Swords — twice
- Norwegian War Cross
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14.02.1919 | The Polish-Soviet war started
The Polish–Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was an armed conflict that pitted Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine against the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic over the control of an area equivalent to today's Ukraine and parts of modern-day Belarus. Ultimately the Soviets, following on from their Westward Offensive of 1918–19, hoped to fully occupy Poland. Although united under communist leadership, Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine were theoretically two separate independent entities since the Soviet republics did not unite into the Soviet Union until 1922.
01.09.1939 | Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War (Polish: Kampania wrześniowa or Wojna obronna 1939 roku) in Poland and the Poland Campaign (German: Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiß (Case White) in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement which terminated the Russian and Japanese hostilities (Nomonhan incident) in the east on 16 September. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.