Janusz Gaładyk

Jan Franciszek Gaładyk[1] (3 October 1898 – 18 July 1947) was a Polish Infantry Colonel who was known for being one of the main commanders at the Battle of Węgierska Górka as well as commanding the 1st Mountain Brigade during the Invasion of Poland.

Janusz Gaładyk
Born(1898-10-03)3 October 1898
Warsaw, Warsaw Governorate, Vistula Land, Russia
Died18 July 1947(1947-07-18) (aged 48)
Warsaw, Warsaw Voivodeship, Poland
Buried
Powązki Military Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland
Allegiance Austria-Hungary
 Second Polish Republic
Polish Underground State
 Polish People's Republic
Branch Polish Legions
Polish Armed Forces
Polish People's Army
Polish Armed Forces in the West
Years of service1914–1946
RankInfantry Colonel
UnitI Corps
Commands held1st Mountain Brigade
Battles/warsWorld War I
World War II

Biography

After graduating from the XIV Warsaw High School from 1907–1914.[2] He then studied at the Warsaw University of Technology[3] and from November 3, 1913, he was a member of the Polish Rifle Squads. From August 6, 1914, he fought in the Polish Legions. He was an officer in the 5th Infantry Regiment of the Polish Legions and was a platoon commander. He was wounded three times during the war. On July 22, 1917, after the Oath crisis, he was interned in Beniaminów. From August 6 to November 11, 1918 he was active in the Polish Military Organization.[3]

He joined the Polish Armed Forces on November 11, 1918, where he was an officer for orders until February 1, 1919 in the 1st Division of the General Staff, and then from February 1 to December 10 of the same year a clerk at the Intelligence Bureau of the 2nd Division of the Supreme Command.[4] From April to July 1920, he was the head of the 2nd Division of the Staff of the Polish 3rd Army, and from July to December he was a battalion commander in the 201st Volunteer Infantry Regiment.[4]

He completed a course at the Experimental Training Center in Rembertów in the period from December 5, 1920 to May 9, 1921, and then from May to November of the same year, a course for officers of various weapons at the Officers' Artillery School in Poznań.[3] After completing the courses, he was assigned to the 5th Legions' Infantry Regiment, in which he served from November 1921 to March 1922, not receiving any function.[5] He was then commander of the 3rd Battery of the 79th Infantry Regiment in Słonim from April 1922 to October 1923.[5]

On October 31, 1923, he was appointed to the Wyższa Szkoła Wojenna in Warsaw as a student of the 4th Normal Course.[6] On October 1, 1925, after completing the course and receiving a scientific diploma of an officer of the General Staff, he was assigned to the Army Inspectorate No. 1 as a clerk.[7] On October 14, 1926, he was assigned to the General Inspector of the Armed Forces as the 2nd Staff Officer of the Army Inspector Major General Edward Rydz-Śmigły.[8] On November 4, 1927 he became the director of the Infantry Officers' School from August 9, 1928 in the Infantry Officer Cadet School in Komorów.[9] In July 1929 he was transferred from the General and Organizational Office of the Ministry of Military Affairs in Warsaw to the command of the 29th Infantry Division in Grodno to the position of the chief of staff.[10] From November 3, 1931 he commanded the 2nd Battalion of the 6th Podhale Rifle Regiment detached in Drohobycz.[11][12] From July 10, 1933 he served as the deputy commander of the 18th Infantry Regiment in Skierniewice.[13] On May 23, 1934, he was transferred to an identical position to the 76th Lidzki Infantry Regiment in Grodno.[14] From November 5, 1935 to May 1939, he commanded the KOP Regiment "Wilejka".[4] He was then made Vice-president of the Vilnius District of the Society for the Development of Eastern Territories in 1939.[15]

During the Invasion of Poland, he commanded the 1st Mountain Brigade until September 6.[5] He avoided captivity after the Invasion and was active in the Polish Underground State. He was then offered to be commander of the Union of Armed Struggle in Vilnius but he did not take the position.[5] On November 11, 1939, he was arrested at the Lithuanian-Belarusian border crossing point by the Soviet authorities. He was in prison until July 1941, and after his release, he served in the Polish People's Army, where he was the commander of the Kołtubanka Camp and from March to May 1942 the commander of the 8th Infantry Division. Then he served in the I Corps.[5] On June 17, 1946, he returned to Poland, and on July 18, 1947, he died in the Military Hospital in Warsaw.[4] He was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw (section B 28 WOJ-5-30).[16]

Awards

References
  1. In the Personal Journal of M.S.Wojsk. No. 8 of June 1, 1935, p. 56
  2. Szkoła im. Stanisława Staszica w Warszawie 1906–1950.
  3. Jurga 1990, p. 767.
  4. Jurga 1990, p. 768.
  5. Jabłonowski et al. 2001, p. 717-718.
  6. Dz. Pers. MSWojsk., Nr 71 z 13 listopada 1923 roku, s. 750.
  7. Dz. Pers. MSWojsk., Nr 101 z 7 października 1925 roku, s. 546.
  8. Dz. Pers. MSWojsk., Nr 44 z 14 października 1926 roku, s. 355.
  9. Dz. Pers. MSWojsk., Nr 25 z 31 października 1927 roku, s. 300.
  10. Dz. Pers. MSWojsk., Nr 11 z 6 lipca 1929 roku, s. 199.
  11. Dz. Pers. MSWojsk., Nr 7 z 23 października 1931 roku, s. 328.
  12. Rocznik Oficerski 1932, p. 27, 620.
  13. Dz. Pers. MSWojsk., Nr 8 z 28 czerwca 1933 roku, s. 130.
  14. Dz. Pers. MSWojsk., Nr 11 z 7 czerwca 1934 roku, s. 154.
  15. Rocznik Ziem Wschodnich 1939, p. 214.
  16. "Wyszukiwarka cmentarna --- Warszawskie cmentarze". www.cmentarzekomunalne.com.pl (in Polish). Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  17. Dziennik Personalny z 1922 r. nr 2, s. 103
  18. M.P. z 1931  r. Nr  18 , poz. 31 "for work in the work of regaining independence”.
  19. M.P. z 1937 r. Nr 260, poz. 410 „for merits in the service of border protection”.
  20. Rozporządzenie Ministra Spraw Wojskowych G.M.I.L. 1254 z 1926 r. (Dziennik Personalny z 1926 r. Nr 12, s. 70)
  21. M.P. z 1938 r. Nr 258, poz. 607 „for spreading a passion for Polish literature and for promoting reading in the army”.

Bibliography
  • "Dziennik Personalny Ministerstwa Spraw Wojskowych" (in Polish). Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  • "Rocznik Oficerski 1932" (in Polish). Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa. 1932. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  • Lista starszeństwa oficerów Legionów Polskich w dniu oddania Legionów Polskich Wojsku Polskiemu (12 kwietnia 1917), Warsaw 1917.
  • Jabłonowski, Marek; Jankowski, Włodzimierz; Polak, Bogusław; Prochwicz, Jerzy (2001). O niepodległą i granice. Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza 1924–1939. Wybór dokumentów (in Polish). Warszawa-Pułtusk: Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna w Pułtusku. Wydział Dziennikarstwa i Nauk Politycznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. ISBN 83-88067-47-8.
  • Jurga, Tadeusz (1990). Obrona Polski 1939. Warsaw: Instytut Wydawniczy PAX. pp. 767–768. ISBN 83-211-1096-7.
  • Szkoła im. Stanisława Staszica w Warszawie 1906–1950. Warsaw: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. 1988. p. 498. ISBN 83-06-01691-2.
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