I am hoping one day to find answers to some of the valid points you raise, that is what makes this 'hobby' we share such a pleasure for me. I am not agreeing or disagreeing to the existence of such an award... I always try to keep an open mind when the evidence is inconclusive.
Do you know the story of Major 'Hubal' - Henryk Dobrzański's Virtuti Militari decoration after he was killed in 1940?
Some time after Major Hubal’s death, an underground courier gave a young AK girl 'Kaja'(real name: Cezarią Iljin-Szymanska) Hubal's Virtuti Militari Award to protect it. During the Warsaw Rising, 'Kaja' (see id photo attached), was in battlegroup "Radosław" as a courier and twice twice wounded, she wore the award as a necklace, often moving via the Warsaw sewer system. After the Warsaw Rising collapsed, 'Kaja' journeyed eastward searching for her mother. She was captured by the Russian NKVD in Bialystok, she was imprisoned in Ostashkov for one year. She had hidden the V.M. in a hollowed out shoe and despite many interrogations by the NKVD it was never discovered. 'Kaja' protected the V.M. (see photo attached of Hubal's V.M.) for 54 years.
This story is told in:
Kaja od Radosława, czyli historia Hubalowego Krzyża (Kaja from Radoslaw, the story of the Hubal Cross - published in December 2007,
My point is to illustrate the fact that awards are sometimes hidden and remain undiscovered in circumsatnces where one would least expect them to survive
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