The War Order of Virtuti Militari (Latin: "For Military Virtue", Polish: Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari) is Poland's highest military decoration for heroism...
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The Order of the White Eagle (Polish: Order Orła Białego) is the highest order of merit of the Republic of Poland and one of the oldest distinctions in...
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The Order of Polonia Restituta (Polish: Order Odrodzenia Polski, English: Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state order established 4 February 1921...
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Leopold Okulicki (category Recipients of the Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
(1919–1921). Okulicki was decorated with the highest Polish military order, the Virtuti Militari. During the interwar period he remained in the army and in 1925...
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Władysław Sikorski (category Commanders of the Virtuti Militari)
out. Poland: Order of the White Eagle (posthumously in 1943) Commander of the Virtuti Militari (1923) Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari (1921) Grand...
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Adam Epler (category Knights of the Virtuti Militari)
Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta...
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Henryk Dobrzański (category Recipients of the Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
include: Order of Polonia Restituta Grand Cross (posthumously in 2010) Order Virtuti Militari Golden Cross (posthumously in 1966) Order Virtuti Militari Silver...
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1924, he was awarded Poland's highest military decoration, the Order of Virtuti Militari. Świątecki was born 1895 in Russian Poland. His father, Jan Świątecki...
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chronologically the second military honour of independent Poland, after the Order Virtuti Militari and before the Cross of Valour, which would be established a month...
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Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko (category Recipients of the Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
June 1945 Golden Cross of Order of Virtuti Militari Silver Cross of Order of Virtuti Militari (1922) Grand Cordon of Order of Polonia Restituta (30 March...
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