Marian Januszajtis-Żegota

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Dzimšanas datums:
03.04.1889
Miršanas datums:
24.03.1973
Mūža garums:
83
Dienas kopš dzimšanas:
49337
Gadi kopš dzimšanas:
135
Dienas kopš miršanas:
18666
Gadi kopš miršanas:
51
Papildu vārdi:
Marian Januszajtis-Żegota
Kategorijas:
1. Pasaules kara dalībnieks, 2. Pasaules kara dalībnieks, Inženieris, Leģionārs, Padomju represiju (genocīda) upuris, Zemnieks, Ģenerālis
Tautība:
 polis
Kapsēta:
Nowy Cmentarz (pl)

Marian Józef Żegota-Januszajtis (3 April 1889, Częstochowa, Piotrków Governorate - 24 March 1973, Royal Tunbridge Wells) was a Polish military commander and politician. One of the founders of Polish paramilitary pro-independence organizations in Austrian partition, and last commander of the 1st Brigade of Polish Legions.

He was also organizer of the unsuccessful coup in 1919, general in the Second Polish Republic and Polish Armed Forces in the West, voivode of the Nowogródek Voivodeship (1924-1926), and member of the Polish government in Exile.

He was arrested by NKVD on 27 October 1939 and imprisoned in Lwów and then in Moscow Lubyanka prison. After the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement of July 1941, he was released. After the war he stayed in exile in the United Kingdom, where he died in March 1973.

Honours and awards

  • Silver Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari (1921)
  • Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
  • Cross of Independence
  • Cross of Valour (four times)
  • Officer's badge "Parasol"
  • Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honour (France)

 

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