After the war, the Polish Army was reorganized into six (later seven) military districts. These were the Warsaw Military District, headquarters (HQ) in Warsaw, the Lublin Military District, HQ in Lublin, the Kraków Military District, HQ in Kraków, the Lodz Military District, HQ in Lodz, the Poznan Military District, HQ in Poznan, the Pomeranian Military District, HQ in Torun, and the Silesian Military District, HQ in Katowice, created in autumn 1945. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( June 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Major Zbigniew Mieczkowski, who has died aged 100, was one of the last Polish veterans living in Britain who fought alongside the Allies in the Second World War.The Polish 1st Armoured Division in the United Kingdom [ edit ] Crusader tank of Polish 1st Armoured Division near Haddington 1943 The following week, it fought in the area of St Nicolas. It entered the town on 12 September 1944. It captured Stekene. BBC Interview, A Polish Battle, Normandy 1944 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/46/a2450846.shtml

Hard pressed our Poles requested air support: impossible! They were told that in the mêlée the aircrew could not tell friend from foe, the air forces were to concentrate on the approach roads. These deficiencies were complemented after entering the battle in Normandy by Prisoners of War – Poles forcibly incorporated into the Wehrmacht. [2] After the fall of Poland and then France in 1940, many of the remaining Poles that had fought in both campaigns retreated with the British Army to the United Kingdom. Sikorski and the Government in Exile (Davies, 2001). Inverlochy Castle near Fort William (STS No.38) was made available for the training of Special At 2200hrs, 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade, 1st and 2nd Armoured Regiments, 10th Dragoons, 10th Mounted Rifles, 10th Coy Engineers, two batteries Anti Tank Support moved to a protected night bivouac 3kilometers northeast of Ypres.The following 2 days were spent fighting for Roullers (now Roeselare). After bypassing Thielt (the town Tielt), the Regiment engaged the enemy in the Ruysselede (Ruiselede) area on September 8, 1944. The German offensive on 10 May caused the Battalion to accelerate its preparations and training for battle. On 27 May 1940, under the command of Major Stanisław Gliński, it moved to Versailles, where it received modern tanks and equipment. Also on this day, the 1st Company was transferred to airfield protection duties and the Finnish Company took its place. The Battalion had only ten days to learn how to operate the new Renault R35 and R39 tanks. The surviving of the Polish Podhalanska Brigade returned to France from the Arctic operation at Narvik. They landed in Brest on 13th June 1940 to find that

allowed the French 20th and 59th Infantry Divisions to escape through the St. Gond marshes. On 15th June the brigade crossed the river Seine at Bar sur Seine He often became engaged in fierce correspondence with both British and Polish newspaper editors about the misrepresentation of events in Polish history. His campaign extended to pressing for recognition for Polish wartime generals and raising memorials to the exploits of Polish soldiers and fallen comrades. The other is about some paintings which were recovered from my family's Poznan estate, after it was decimated by the Blitzkrieg. There are individuals in the paintings that I know I am related to, but unfortunately we no longer have anyone living in the family who recalls who the people are! Since one of the paintings is of a man in uniform, I am hoping that we may be able to identify at least his time period, and then I can cross-reference that with other family data that I have obtained. On 3 March 1946, St Nicolas presented the regiment with its colors. With the adoption of the Regiment by the town of St Nicolas, the soldiers of the Regiment were given the right to wear the town's coat of arms on their uniforms. Our victory was total, but at a terrible price: only seventy Poles survived the slaughter unhurt: I was the only officer still able to stand!

Despite equipment shortages, it was planned to form 2 infantry corps (Grenadier Division, 2nd Rifle Division, the Independent Rifle Brigade), an armoured division, Always known as Zbyszek, he was raised in the traditions of the landed gentry, surrounded by noble and religious icons and educated at schools in Warsaw and Wloclawek.