Monte Cassino cross

[andrzejku98]

Hello Everyone,

I found the following Faces and items whilst surfing the other day :



Driving Licence for Strz. Jan Kłapot.

When awarded the Monte Cassino Cross his details were as follows :

Rank : Strz.

Surname : Kłapot

Christian Name : Jan

Date of Birth : 25th October 1912

Father's Name : Mikołaj

Place of Birth : Germany

Army Number : 1912-409-III

Unit : 16KZaop (16th Supply Company)

Monte Cassino Cross Numbered : 28121



Sierz. Józef Chyży



Sierz. Józef Chyży in Tel Aviv in 1942



Sierz. Józef Chyży sitting front left



Monte Cassino Cross Legitymacja Numbered : 44820 awarded to Sierz. Józef Chyży



British Stars Legitymacja for Sierz. Józef Chyży



2nd Corps Badge Legitymacja Numbered : 105929



Pplk. Józef Robert Baumann

When awarded the Monte Cassino Cross His details were as follows :

Rank : Pplk.

Surname : Baumann

Christian Name : Józef Robert

Date of Birth : 15th March 1897

Father's Name : Robert

Place of Birth : Rożniatów

Army Number : 1897-63-III

Unit : 4PAL

Monte Cassino Cross Numbered : 19943

By the end of the war in Europe he had been awarded the Virtuti Militari Legitymacja Numbered : 10738 (interestingly the Register lists His Surname as Bauman with a single N.



Monte Cassino Cross Legitymacja Numbered : 44906 awarded to Kapral Jan Kałwa, Born in 1899, Army Number : 1899-257-III, Unit : 24KT (24th Transport Company).



Kapral Alojzy Kuczera

When awarded the Monte Cassino Cross his details were as follows :

Rank : Kapral

Surname : Kuczera

Christian Name : Alojzy

Date of Birth : 3rd March 1916

Army Number : 1916-161-III

Unit : 10PAC

Monte Cassino Cross Numbered : 34002



St.Strz. Józef Żak

When awarded the Monte Cassino Cross His details were as follows :

Rank : St. Szer. (Lance Corporal)

Surname : Żak

Christian Name : Józef

Date of Birth : 1907

Army Number : 1907-58-III

Unit : 11 Baon Łączności

Monte Cassino Cross Numbered : 41006

Also awarded the Following Polish, British and Italian Awards :

Polish

1) Army Medal (MW)

2) Monte Cassino Cross (KPMC)

British

3) 1939-1945 Star

4) Italy Star

5) 1939-1945 Defence Medal

6) 1939-1945 War Medal

Italian

7) War Cross.

Best wishes

Andrzej

[mittra]

hello, is there any information of this cross number?

18933

thank you

[conrado]

Hello mittra,

The Recipient of the Monte Cassino Cross Numbered 18933 was:

Kapral (Corporal) Ludwik Nawrotek, Army Number: 1915-48-III, Unit: 17 Lwowski Batalion Strzelców



After the war he settled down in the Wales, UK. He married with Mary A. M. Ring and obtained the British Citizenship - Naturalisation Certificate: Ludwik Peter Antoni Nawrotek. From Poland. Resident in Barnstaple, Devon. Certificate BNA44685 issued 21 January 1957.



Regards
Konrad

[ValeriiGajewski]

Hello there Dear Andrzej!

Kindly ask you to provide some informatione about following soldiers, who were brothers to each other:

Boleslaw Pożarski father's name Adam
birth date: unknown


Piotr Pożarski
birth year: 1909
Army #: 1909/161/III
KMC#:15924
13 Wileński Batalion Strzelcow "Rysiow" - Pożarski Piotr


Jozef Pożarski, father's name Adam
birth year: 1913
died: 1944
Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne


Regards, Valerii

[andrzejku98]

Hello Mittra,

Many thanks for your post, Konrad has given you the correct information, I can also add the following :

Father's Name : Jan



The entry in the London Gazette Dated 12th March 1957, Issue Number : 41022, Page :1597.

Best wishes

Andrzej

[andrzejku98]

Hello Valerii,

Many thanks for your post, Piotr served in the 2nd Corps whilst his brother Józef served in the AK, I was able to find the following article on the internet which you might find useful :

Józef Pożarski s. Adama from Żółwica commune Przebrodzie

The ancestral place of the Pożarski family in the Vilnius Borderlands was the village of Wołoso (today it no longer exists), on the lake of the same name in the parish of Slobodka, Braslaw county (today Vitebsk Oblast in Belarus). From where the Pożarscy family spread all over the Brasław region and to Mior in search of work and because of their marriages.

One of them was Adam Pożarski (born in 1859), son of Michał, who married Marta Kisły, c. Ignacy Kisielewski born in 1875 in Żółwica. Later, however, the name was changed to Kisły.
Initially, the Pożarski family lived in the village of Zapołowszczyzna, where on 14.08.1909 a son Piotr was born. Later, the family lived in the backwater of Żółwica (Kustawyje) on the shores of Lake Ukla in the parish of Ikaźń. Adam built a large and solid wooden house for his family there. Between the two houses, neighbors erected a several-meter-high wooden cross. Adam's neighbor was Basil (Vasily) Kisly, who was a fisherman.

Adam Pożarski was a grove and worked for Mr. Arkadiusz Dziekow, who was the owner of the forest in which he lived. Adam and Martha had eight children (Anna, Piotr, Józef, Bolesław, Bronisława, Jan, Julian, Janina). Adam's son, Józef Pożarski, was mobilized to the Polish Army in September 1939, but soon returned home.

On the night of February 9-10, 1940, on the orders of Moscow, the NKVD began to deport Polish citizens from the former Eastern Borderlands of the Republic of Poland to the depths of Russia and to Asian republics, including forest service employees and their families. The Enkawudzi also came at night on a sleigh to Żółwica to pick up the family of Adam Pożarski, who was already 80 years old, to deport them. All family members who found themselves at home in the evening were immediately loaded onto a sleigh. The horses moved and began to be transported to the assembly point, to later send them by turn to Siberia. They were not even given the opportunity to take the most necessary things, especially products. Therefore, Mrs. Kisła (neighbor) ran out of the house with food and at the last minute threw it on a sleigh.

However, the moment of inattention of the enkawudzists caused Józef Pożarski to jump off the sleigh and disappear into the darkness of the forest. In this way, he avoided deportation, but he had to hide in the forests, at night he only came to his former neighbors, the family of Basil Kisly.

Józef Pożarski swore to himself that he would find the person who contributed to the deportation of his family. Eventually, he found out who made his family appear on the deportation list. He was a resident of the nearby village of Koleśniki(?) named Januszkiewicz, but he was not related to the family of Piotr Januszkiewicz (coincidence of surnames). Therefore, Joseph was able to avenge his family. However, he had to hide in forests and surrounding villages until the end of June 1941, i.e. until the time of the invasion of Nazi Germany on the USSR.

Let's go back to Józef Pożarski, who managed to avoid deportation to Siberia. Well, until the Germans entered the Braslaw region in June 1941, he had to hide from the NKVD. He began to work in Polish underground organizations, he also joined the Home Army After the germans came at the behest of the underground authorities, he began his service in the Belarusian police. In 1943 he married Leonarda Safranowicz, with whom he had two children, and they lived together in Przebrod. In 1945, Leonarda and her children went to Polish, and Piotr stayed to fight for free Poland on the spot.

During the next elections, probably it was about the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR – held on February 10, 1946 (the first since the end of World War II), Piotr Pożarski decided to counteract them. To this end, he decided to destroy the polling station itself, which was located in the local school in Przebrod. Late at night, he threw two grenades into an empty school, which exploded, bringing destruction. The son of the headmaster of the school, however, managed to notice the "cursed" soldier and began to shoot, wounded him, also he could not run away any further and was caught.
Immediately, the Chekists arrived from Mior, who, after a short and brutal investigation, led him still alive to the edge of the town and tied him to a tree. On Joseph's neck, the enkavudzista placed a plaque with the inscription "bandit". This was told by one witness who went to Braslaw region for the first time with Polish in the 60s of the twentieth century. A second witness in 2015 told me personally that he had heard that in the end Joseph (alive or already dead) was covered with dry branches and burned.
His public and terrible death was to be a warning to other "cursed" soldiers. After this verdict, his immediate family, who did not manage to leave for Polish, was also repressed. Sister Bronisława, who was pregnant, and her husband Józef Lewsza were thrown into prison. While in prison, Bronisława gave birth to her daughter Jadwiga.
His immediate family tried to hide the truth about him, because it was dangerous in people's Poland. My father Kazimierz, who in December 1944 joined the Second Army of the Polish Army as a rifleman in Polotsk, claimed that Józef Pożarski in 1944 was killed by the Germans as a partisan of the Home Army. Józef's wife – Leonarda and her relatives in Poland received news that he wanted to blow up the school with his children.
Fire and other military settlers, police officers, Polish officials and teachers, including the headmaster of the school in Ukla, were deported to Siberia. During the deportation, one of Pożarski's sons – twenty-year-old Józef – managed to escape to the forest. The poor man, however, did not enjoy freedom for long. Cornered in a hiding place, he was shot and, as a warning to others, the body with the inscription "bandit" was left for a long time at the intersection of the Braslaw route.
To all relatives and acquaintances, including my parents, with whom Joseph visited, the NKVD charged with the creation of a combat organization aimed at combating Soviet power. They were all hailed as "enemies of the people"." This was one of the pretexts for mass arrests and subsequent deportations of Poles from the Braslaw poviat. The alleged proof of the existence of a combat organization in the Ikazno municipality was the so-called "list of conspirators". In fact, it was only a list of members of the Parish Council and some of the church's donors. The enkavudzists found this list with the parish priest at the time of his arrest. My parents were also on the list. Soon, huge changes took place in the life of Zołwica. In the beautiful, rich farm of the Pożarski family, a family of Belarusians was settled. As it turned out later, they were NKVD agents who by all means collected information about Polish residents of nearby towns. Although these denunciations were not always supported by facts, they were the reason for interrogations and mass arrests in the Ikazno municipality. Poles living in the vicinity of Ikaźnia were treated particularly cruelly.

NOWOŚC — Rodzina Pożarskich z Kresow Wileńskich (Brasławszczyzna) — KrzysztofPozarski.com

Best wishes

Andrzej

[mittra]

I would like to merge other documents with these

[tomasz66]

Dear Andrzej!
Many thanks for your earlier information.
I have a kind question - Mieczysław Himstedt 1903-1984 - is He on the MCC list? he is buried in Poznań at the Miłostowo Cemetery.
greetings
tomasz

[andrzejku98]

Hello Tomasz,

Many thanks for your post, I have checked the register without finding any listing for him, but have found the following information for you :

Rank : Ppor.rez.

Date of Birth : 21st June 1903

Father's Name : Adolf

Born in : Cukrownia Żytyń

The only other piece of information that I was able to find was that he survived the Katyn Massacre.

Best wishes

Andrzej

[mittra]

hello, is this numbering correct? thank you