Michael Hnatiuk

Michael Hnatiuk, or Mykhailo Hnatiuk (Ukrainian: Михайло Гнатюк, born 1883 in Sasiv, Galicia, Austria-Hungary) was an Austrian-Hungarian Ukrainian officer and commander of a legion of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen.

Michael Hnatiuk

Biography

Mykhailo Hnatiuk studied at the philosophical faculty of the University of Lviv.

He joined the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen in 1914. He was as first lieutenant the commander of a military engineering legion, which troops were riflemen that had recovered from illness or injury.[1]

Hnatiuk emigrated to the United States. His further biography there is unknown.

Literature
  • М. Лазарович. 2005. Легіон Українських Січових Стрільців. Тернопіль: Джура. ISBN 966-8017-92-7 (in Ukrainian)

References
  1. Микола Лазарович, Наталія Лазарович. «Машерують наші добровольці…».
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