A City Fights for Freedom. The Rising of Lwow 1918-1919

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Here is a book by Mrs Rosa Bailey, however my post has to do with one of the books heroes, LT Aleksander Zborzyl-Mirecki who died defending the City. He is featured in her book.

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Headquarters of PoLish Army in Lwow, communique Number 5 (V). Dated 6 November 1918

Where there is a pencil written name "zborzil" translation of the lines :

"During yesterdays fighting we have taken from the enemy again two machine guns. Lt. Mirecki had taken his sixth in the row. (machine gun).

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Lt Zborzyl-Mirecki Virtuti Militari awarded posthumously.

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His Legitymacja for KW. However it does not have the S.P. in front as the VM document.

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Obituary from a Lwow newspaper dated 22 November 1919. Speaks of his daredevil attitude, and of him capturing six machineguns, by himself. He was wounded in a stomach in December 1918 fighting by Stryj. Taken in captivity, transported to a hospital in Szczerce where he dies and gets burried on December 10 1918.

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Another obituary, speaks of his unit capturing 12 machineguns alltogether, and tells of different fights in the City he was part of.

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Certificate of Death and Burrial. Dated 11 December 1919. It gives his unit as : 1st Regiment of Lwow Rifles. Date of death is 10 December 1918 in a hospital in Szczerc. Died from war wounds. He was born in Lwow in 1892 so died when he was 26 years old. Quite possibly had he lived he would have become a great Polish General, as several of his comrades in arms did. They exhumed the body on 21st November 1919 after that territory became Polish again.
He is burried at the Lwow Defenders Cementary.

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[andrzejku98]

Hi Itakdalej,

A very nice article, many thanks for posting it.

Best wishes

Andrzejku