All thoughts and opinions expressed are those of my own and should not be mistaken for medical and/or legal advice.
"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne
I thought I would share this with you. Several thousand photographs taken by the 2nd Corps at the end of, and just after the war. It's in my Dropbox. You will have seen many of these pictures before, Melchior Wankowicz used amny in his "Bitwa o Monte Cassino" Now you can own them yourself.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y2d1trepz...Kjre89xDwnGOPa
Happy viewing.
Mark OSTRO
This is the state of play with the unit list. Even in its unfinished state this is probably the most complete list available to researchers available at the moment.
1-13 Senior Officers 2nd Polish Corps.
14-750 Headquarters 2nd Corps Staff
745-750
751-1102 Killed in Action 3DSK
1103- 2043 Officers 3DSK
2044-14702 Other Ranks listed Alphabetically 3DSK
14751-15246 5 Kresowa Infantry Division Headquarters Staff 5KDP
15247-15375 5 Wilno Infantry Brigade Headquarters Staff
15376-16136 13 Wilno Infantry Battalion
16137-16878 14 Wilno Infantry Battalion
16879-17615 15 Wilno Infantry Battalion
17616-17743 6 Lwow Infantry Brigade Headquarters Staff
17744-18477 16 Lwow Infantry Battalion
18478-19206 17 Lwow Infantry Battalion
19207-19938 18 Lwow Infantry Battalion
19939-20656 4 Light Artillery Regiment 4PAL
20657-21362 5 Light Artillery Regiment 5PAL
21363-22027 6 Light Artillery Regiment 6PAL
22028-22654 5 Anti-Tank Regiment 5PAPpanc
22655-23554 5 Anti-Aircraft Regiment 5PAPLotn.
23555-24438 15 'Poznan' Lancer Regiment 15PULP
24439-25130 5 Heavy Machine Gun Battalion 5BCKM
25131-26019 Engineers 5KDP
26020-26526 5 Kresowa Inf. Div. Signals Battalion
26527-26770 5 Sanitary (Medical) Company 5 K Sanit
26771-27016 6 Sanitary (Medical) Company 6 K Sanit
27017-27059 Command Supply and Transport Units DOZiTran
27060-27324 5 Supply Company 5 K Zaop
27325-27583 6 Supply Company 6 K Zaop
27584-27966 15 Supply Company 15 K Zaop
27967-28307 16 Supply Company 16 K Zaop
28308-28443 5 Workshop Company [5 EME Coy.] 5 K Warszt
28444-28586 6 Workshop Company [6 EME Coy.] 6 K Warsz
28587-28691 5 Provost (Military Police) Squadron [Coy.] 5 Szw.Zand
28692-28733 6 Light Artillery Regiment 6 PAL
28734-28739 15 'Poznan' Lancer Regiment 15PULP.
28751-28975 Headquarters 2nd ‘Warsaw’ Armoured Brigade
28976-28987 On detachment to 2nd Armoured Brigade
28988 Headquarters 2nd ‘Warsaw’ Armoured Brigade
28989-29672 4th ‘Skorpion’ Armoured Regiment
29673-30328 1st ‘Krechowiecki’ Lancer Regiment
30329-30992 6th ‘Children of Lwow’ Armoured Regiment
30993-31188 9 Signals Company
31189-31385 9 Light Sanitary (Medical) Company
31386-31909 9 Supply Company
31910-32105 9 Workshop Company [9 EME Coy.]
32106-32246 9 Forward Tank Replacement Squadron [Coy.]
32247-32269 6 Field Court
33058-33767 9th Polish Medium Regiment 9 PAC
37519-38083 1st Artillery Survey Regiment
38084-38760 Carpathian Lancer Regiment
38656 awarded to Colonel Henryk Ignacy Szymanski (USA) Any ideas?
41616-41703 5 Casualty Clearing Station 5 Polowy Szpital Ewakuacyjny
42329-42736 1st Medical Hospital
42737-43169 2nd Medical Hospital
43513-43520 Field Biological and Chemical Laboratory
43864 awarded to Brigadier Sir E H C Frith (UK) C.O. 26 British Liaison Unit
45924-45973 318 Mobile Canteen and Library Company 318 Komp Kantyn i Bibliotek Ruch.
46270-46377 350 Material Company
46479-46515 378 Field Bath
46516-465227 Heads of Corps Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Service (Literally “Workshop and Repair Service”)
46528-46693 13 Workshop Company [13 EME Coy.]
46694-46872 15 Workshop Company [15 EME Coy.]
46873-47123 35 Workshop Company [35 EME Coy.]
47124-47127 Corps Ordinance Workshop
47128-47294 36 Rescue Company
47295-47303 Heads of Geographical Services
47304-47455 12 Geographical Company
47456-47475 312 Field Map Store
47476-47484 Command 2 Corps Provost (Military Police)
47485-47648 11 Provost (Military Police) Squadron [Coy.]
47649-47659 1 Provost (Military Police) Platoon ‘Etapowy’(under strength unit with nominal senior designation)
47660-47676 2 Provost (Military Police) Platoon ‘Etapowy’
47677-48006 Palestine Command
48408 - 48498 Independent Commando Company
48499-48514 Headquarters 2nd Corps Staff
48506-48514 Cipher Office and Radio Station
48521-48523 2 Provost (Military Police) Platoon ‘Etapowy’
48532-48535 318 Mobile Canteen and Library Company 318 Komp Kantyn i Bibliotek Ruch.
48554-48580 Arial Photographic Interpretation Section
48598-48600 Headquarters 2nd Corps Staff
48688-48691 Headquarters 2nd Corps Staff
48693 Carpathian Lancer Regiment
48750-48759 Headquarters 2nd Corps Staff
Last edited by ostro; 05-09-2014 at 10:02 PM. Reason: Fix Typos
Dear Andrzejku, re post 258/259. Just got a message sent to me from Andrew Dolinski.
Dear Mark
My profound apology for not seeing your email of Friday May 2nd until this morning. I simply had no time to lokk through the 100’s of emails in my in box until this morning. What a surprise to see what you had found.
The information you have obtained regarding my grandfather Jan Kubinski and his brother Andrzej is wonderful. I feel like my jigsaw is beginning to come together. I can confirm that both survived the war, though my grandfather Jan was heavily wounded at Monte Cassino and spent many years in England in various hospitals recovering. Both lived until the 1970’s and are both buried in Greenford cemetery in West London. I remember both brothers talking about the war, and the name Monte Cassino became engrained in my head. Four years ago I had the chance to visit Italy and made a special effort
The information you have obtained is priceless to me and confirms that I do have my grandfathers brothers MCC. Thank you so much for finding this out for me.
The Kubinski family was very large with probably 15 or so being deported to Siberia. However for what ever reason they seem not to feature on any lists? Why can that be???
Once again thank you Mark, I REALLY appreciate your kind help. Andrew
I told him that the research was not mine. Just thought you might like to know.
Regards, Mark
Last edited by ostro; 05-09-2014 at 10:11 AM.
Dear Mark,
To answer your question who was Colonel Ignacy Szymanski, he was the United States Army Liason Officer to the 2nd Corps.
Best wishes
Andrzejku
Hello Everyone,
Some more photographs of recipients of the Monte Cassino Cross:
Grave of Major Stanislaw Drzewiecki at Loreto MCC 28756
Major Ludwik Ziobrowski MCC 16237
Plutowny Stanislaw Chajdes MCC 17881
Porucznik sp. Mieczyslaw Ulanecki MCC 777
Saper Jozef Bejnar MCC 2601
St Strz. Waclaw Biernacki MCC 19359
Grave of Strz sp. Aleksander Archocki MCC 783
Grave of Strz.sp. Stanislaw Amborziak MCC 782
Grave of Podporucznik sp. Ksawery Adamarczuk MCC 18478
Grave of Plutowny sp. Adam Antoniuk MCC 30976
Grave of Kapral sp. Jan Adamski MCC 15385
Grave of Kapral sp. Jan Arnold MCC 34941
Joint grave of Kapral sp. Ignacy Najdowicz MCC 38102 and St. Ulan sp. Stanislaw Angielski
Thats all for today
Best wishes
Andrzejku
All thoughts and opinions expressed are those of my own and should not be mistaken for medical and/or legal advice.
"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne
Dear Panie Andrzejku,
If I can impose on you for some more help – this time on a rather complex question that is personal to me. As I have mentioned before my granddad was a Medical Orderly in 5 (Polish) Casualty Clearing Station [SOE in Polish]. By the time the MCC were given out his station had been upgraded to a Polowy Szpital Ewakuacyjny. As far as I can see there is no British equivelent of Pol. Szp. Ewak. – „Field Clearing Hospital”, and I am sure that his unit is listed as such on the great list – MCC41616 to MCC41783.
I have been having a long running argument with an Italian gentlemen from Cassamassina over the exact names and whereabouts of the various hosptials and medical facilities. The problem is that most references do no know how to distinguish/translate between the various units.
Sanitarny Ośrodek Ewakuacyjny
Polowy Szpital Ewakuacyjny
Polowy Szpital
Szpital Wojskowy
Szpital Wojenny
Casualty Clearing Station
Field Hospital
Military Hospital
War Hospital
So...
41,447 Plk lek.dr. Marian Dietrich was the Szef Służby Zdrowia
At some point under that is the listing for what I presume will be 3 Pol.Szpit.Ewak.
This should lead into my grandad's unit [5 Pol.Szpit.Ewak.?]- both of these had about 160 personnel each.
So what comes from 41784 to 42159? It's medical but what unit?
42171 is, according to the one available listing I have been able to find, the start of "2 Medical Corps"
42,181 Kapitan Czeslaw Szolin apparantly was in 6 HOSPITAL - this is how it was translated to English but what is the Polish? 6 Szpital Pol.?
42,280 Siostra TOPOROWSKA Halina 1919-79-III is listed as 162 Military Hospital. Is that right? In the Polish?
The same source lists
42329 to 42736 as 1st Medical Hospital [yet Kosa's Post 223 had Julia Kenig MCC#42636 working in 5th Field Hospital]
and
42737 to 43169 as 2nd Medical Hospital. Assuming the numbers are correct, how are these hospitals listed in Polish?
43170 43514 is listed as 2nd Medical Corps. Any ideas about what went in on there?
I know that 43515 to 43520 is the Field Bacteriological/Chemical Unit.
The best available list I can find is:
Medical Corps 41447 to 42159
2nd Medical Corps 42172 to 42328
1st Medical Hospital 42329 to 42736
2nd Medical Hospital 42737 to 43169
2nd Medical Corps 43170 to 43520
The same rather limited list has been repeated on several websites and that is one of the reasons I am trying to compile a more useful one.
PolishMilitaria.com History Articles
The Polish Victory at Monte Cassino
319: Polish ww2 Medals @ Militarybadgecollection.com
Anyway, any help you can supply in filling in the gaps in 2 Polcorps Medical services would be gratefully appreciated.
With thanks for your continuing support and best regards,
Mark OSTRO
Dear Mark.
In answer to your question the following list is the Medical Units of the 2nd Corps at the time of the awards:
MCC Nr: 41447-41449 - Szefostwo Sluzby Zdrowia 2 Korpusu.
MCC Nr: 41450-41615 - Sanitarny Osrodek Ewakuacyjny Nr:3
MCC Nr: 41616-41783 - Sanitarny Osrodek Ewakuacyjny Nr:5
MCC Nr: 41784-42159 - 161 Szpital Wojenny
MCC Nr: 42172- 42328 - 162 Szpital Wojenny
MCC Nr: 42329-42736 - 1 Szpital Wojenny
MCC Nr: 42737-43169 - 3 Szpital Wojenny
MCC Nr: 43170-43415 - 31 Kompania Sanitarna
MCC Nr: 43416-43443 - 32 Pluton Higieny Polowej
MCC Nr: 43444-43451 - 34 Sekcja Przeciwmalaryczna
MCC Nr: 43452-43460 - 45 Czolowka Chirurgiczna
MCC Nr: 43461-43470 - 46 Czolowka Chirurgiczna
MCC Nr: 43471-43480 - 47 Czolowka Chirurgiczna
MCC Nr: 43481 - 43489 - 48 Czolowka Chirurgiczna
MCC Nr: 43490- 43493 - 49 Czolowka Transfuzyjna
MCC Nr: 43494-43497 - 50 Czolowka Transfuzyjna
MCC Nr: 43498-43514 - 341 Polowa Skladnica Sanitarna
MCC Nr: 43515-43520 - Polowa Pracownia Bakteriologiczna.
I hope that the above list answers all your questions
Best wishes
Andrzejku
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