Generał brygady Leon Pachucki (1872–1932) – żołnierz Armii Polskiej we Francji i bohater wojny polsko-rosyjskiej 1920 r. Zarys biografi i
Brigadier General Leon Pachucki (1872–1932) – Soldier of the Polish Army in France and Hero of the Polish-Russian War of 1920. Outline of the Biography

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the research is the fi gure of Leon Pachucki, a brigadier general of the Polish Army, who took part in World War I and the Polish-Russian War. The aim of the article is to present his military career, both in the Russian Army and later in the Polish Army. The text is based mainly on documents collected in the Central Military Archives, and on available literature supplementing the archival materials. On their basis, it was possible to analyze the stages of his military career, his achievements on the batt lefi elds, his service in higher command positions in the interwar period and his social activities after retirement. He was a hero of the Polish-Russian War in 1920 – for his courage on the batt lefi eld, he was awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari 5th class and the Cross of Valor. The future general was born in 1872 in Suwałki and as a youth he joined the Russian army. He served in this army until 1918, recently in the Russian corps in the Balkans. In spring that year he came to France, where he commanded the 3rd Rifl e Regiment (Polish Army in France). Together with him, he came to Poland in April 1919 and took part in the Polish off ensive in Volyn. At the end of June this year, he took the position of the commander of the infantry in the 1st Rifl e Division of the General Haller’s Army. Three months later, he became the commander of the XXV Infantry Brigade. As its commander, he showed courage on leading the defense of the locality of Pohrebyszcze at the turn of May and June 1920. In September 1921, he became the deputy commander of the Corps District No. IV Lodz, and in 1925 he took up a similar position in the Command of the Corps District No. IX Brest. After retiring in 1927, he moved to Lodz, where he died in 1932. It is worth adding, that he was the only one general of the army of the Second Polish Republic buried in this city before World War II.

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