Zolnierczyk, Leopold

Date of birth:: November 10th, 1918 (Sanok, Poland)
Date of death:: May 14th, 1944 (Monte Cassino, Italy)
Buried on:: Polish War Cemetery Cassino
Plot: VIII. Row: C. Grave: 17.
Nationality:: Polish (1918-1939, IInd Republic)

Biography

Leopold Zolnierczyk served in the Polish Army from 1937. He fled via Hungary and Yugoslavia to France, where he resumed the fight against the German army. He was killed on 14 May 1944, after shrapnel from a German shell hit his head.

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Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari - Krzyz Srebrny

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Podpulkownik (Lieutenant-colonel)
Unit:: 4th "Skorpion" Armoured Regiment, 2nd Warsaw Armoured Brigade, 2nd Warsaw Armoured Division, Polish II Corps, Polish Armed Forces in the West

Posthumously awarded

Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari - Krzyz Srebrny

Krzyz Walecznych

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Podporucznik (2nd Lieutenant)
Unit:: 4th "Skorpion" Armoured Regiment, 2nd Warsaw Armoured Brigade, 2nd Warsaw Armoured Division, Polish II Corps, Polish Armed Forces in the West

Krzyz Monte Cassino

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Podpulkownik (Lieutenant-colonel)
Unit:: 4th "Skorpion" Armoured Regiment, 2nd Warsaw Armoured Brigade, 2nd Warsaw Armoured Division, Polish II Corps, Polish Armed Forces in the West

Sources

- Leopold Żołnierczyk
- Józef Stachowicz: W służbie ojczyzny. W: Księga pamiątkowa Gimnazjum Męskiego w Sanoku 1888–1958. Kraków: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1958, s. 121–122.