Jach, Franciszek
- Date of birth:
- January 18th, 1894 (Januszkow, German Empire)
- Date of death:
- May 13th, 1944 (Lublin, Poland)
- Buried on:
- Polish War Graves Catholic Cemetery Lublin
Plot: 33. Row: 11. Grave: 7.
- Nationality:
- Polish (1918-1939, IInd Republic)
Biography
Captain Franciszek Jach was a pilot in the German Imperial Air Force during the First World War. After that war, he joined the Polish armed forces and retired in 1933. He was called for duty in 1939 and joined the resistance after the Polish capitulation. Jach died of his wounds substained during a Soviet bombing run on Lublin in 1944 on 9 May 1944.
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Sources
- Photo 1: (Public Domain)
- - Peter Bojarski: 97 anniversary of Wielkopolska. Albatros for the uprising . Warsaw: Agora, alehistoria, December 2015.