Bohaterski czyn por. Kazimierza Śledzińskiego podczas napadu pod Sieniawką (1926 r.). Przyczynek do historii Korpusu Ochrony Pogranicza (1924–1939)
Lieutenant Kazimierz Śledziński’s Heroic Act during the Ambush near Sieniawka (1926). Contribution to the History of the Border Protection Corps (1924–1939)

Summary/Abstract: Despite the signing of the peace treaty in Riga (March 21, 1921), which formally ended the Polish-Soviet War (1918–1921), the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic were still not a safe place. Although Soviet Russia officially recognized the provisions of the peace treaty and ratified them – thus recognizing, among others, the shape and course of the border with Poland – the communists connected with the Communist International never abandoned their plans for a global revolution and carrying its flame through Poland to Western Europe. The task of the Border Protection Corps (Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza, KOP), a special military formation created in the fall of 1924 to protect the eastern borders of the Polish state, was to restore order and security on the border in response to the diversion and common banditry inspired by Soviet intelligence. The grouping of units in three lines, supported by cavalry subunits, adopted by the KOP command, and above all the determination and firmness of the soldiers in fighting sabotage and banditry, was supposed to pacify the bands and calm the situation on the Polish-Soviet border. In January 1926 there was a bandit attack on bus passengers near Sieniawka in Nowogródczyzna. One of the passengers was Lieutenant Kazimierz Śledziński, an officer of the 9th KOP Battalion in Klecko, who, with a sense of soldierly duty, fought alone against infiltraitors in defense of the civilians. Despite being outnumbered, he managed to repel the attack and bring help despite his wounds. He was the first soldier to be awarded the Cross of Merit for Bravery established in 1928.

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