Peter Abakanowicz ( Polish: Piotr Abakanowicz ; June 21, 1890 , Warsaw - June 1, 1948 , Wronki , Poland ) - military leader, pilot of the Russian and Polish armies, participant in the armed struggle in Poland.
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| Date of Birth | June 21, 1890 | ||
| Place of Birth | Warsaw | ||
| Date of death | June 1, 1948 (57 years old) | ||
| Place of death | Wronka prison, Poland | ||
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| Occupation | military pilot, Polish Air Force Colonel | ||
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Biography
The representative of the noble Polish noble family coat of arms Abdank . Born in the family of a guard officer of the imperial army. In 1909 he graduated from the Kiev gymnasium. He followed in his father's footsteps and entered the Pavlovsk Military School . He began his service as lieutenant of the Volyn Life Guards Regiment in 1912.
World War I
With the outbreak of World War I, he participated in battles in East Prussia . In November 1914, he was wounded by a bullet in his left forearm. Evacuated to the 1st Warsaw Red Cross Hospital. [one]
By the highest order of the Life Guard , the second lieutenant of the Life Guards of the Volyn Regiment, Peter Abakanovich, was awarded the Order of St. Anna of the IV degree (Anninsky weapon). [2]
In March 1915, the Life Guards Lieutenant of the Life Guards Volyn Regiment Peter Abakanovich was awarded the Order of St. Anna of the III degree with swords and a bow. [3]
By the highest order of the Life Guard, Lieutenant of the Life Guards of the Volyn Regiment Petr Abakanovich in May 1915 was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav II degree with swords [4] .
In December 1915, the Life Guards lieutenant of the Life Guards Volyn Regiment Peter Abakanovich awarded the Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree with swords and bow . [5] In 1915 he received the rank of captain for military services.
In July 1916 he was shell-shocked. [6] In August 1916, at his own request, was transferred to aviation. In December 1916, after graduating from the school of military pilots, he was sent to England for pilot instructor courses.
In March 1917, the Life Guards Staff Captain of the Life Guards Volyn Regiment, Petr Abakanovich, seconded to the 2nd Consolidated Guard Reserve Battalion, was awarded the Order of St. Anna of the 2nd degree [7] .
Received a flight license on November 20, 1917 in Gatchina .
Civil War
In January 1918 he entered the 1st Polish Corps under the command of General I. Dovbor-Musnitsky . At first he served in the infantry, and then moved to aviation. He formed and commanded a squadron of 16 aircraft (the so-called I Aviation Corps ). In June 1918, when the corps was forced to lay down their arms, P. Abakanovich ordered the planes to be burned so that they were not captured by the enemy - German troops.
When trying to escape to France, he was arrested by the Bolsheviks, but released on condition that he would serve in the aviation of the Red Army . He was included in the 1st air squadron of the Red Army under the command of Alexei Shirinkin .
After the squadron was sent to the Polish front, on May 1, 1920, during a take-off on a Newpor 24bis plane, it flew to the side of the Poles to scatter leaflets and landed at a military airfield near Borisov . An officer of the military tribunal released him from charges of treason and reinstated in the rank of colonel, at the same time he was marked with the “Pilot's Field Sign”.
After that, from July 1, 1921 to 1930, he served in the Polish Air Force . Initially, he was a flight instructor in Poznan and other Polish cities. In 1922-1930 he commanded the 2nd, 4th, 11th and 5th air regiments. In 1930, due to poor health, as a result of two air crashes, he was transferred to the reserve.
During the Second World War he remained in Poland, under the pseudonyms Barsky , Gray , Grudzel , participated in the underground activities of the National Armed Forces ( NSZ ). . He was the commandant of the NSZ Warszawa County Conspiracy Military Organization. From October 1944 - Chief of the NSZ General Staff, Inspector of the Silesia Region. In 1944-1945 - commander of the Warsaw-Voivodeship district. Member of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 .
After the war he continued the struggle with the communist regime of Poland. In October 1945 he was arrested by employees of the Ministry of Security . In 1946 he was sentenced to death, later replaced by life imprisonment. In 1947 he came under amnesty, but was sent to forced settlement in Vronki for a period of 15 years.
Died June 1, 1948 from the beatings of a guard.
In 1991, his ashes were solemnly transferred to the Warsaw Powonzki cemetery.
Rewards
- Cross Virtuti Militari (1921)
- National Cross of the armed struggle (posthumous)
Notes
- ↑ Abakanovich Petr Petrovich :: Card index of losses :: World War I . gwar.mil.ru. Date of treatment February 28, 2019.
- ↑ Abakanovich Peter :: Documents on awards :: The First World War . gwar.mil.ru. Date of treatment February 28, 2019.
- ↑ Abakanovich Peter :: Documents on awards :: The First World War . gwar.mil.ru. Date of treatment February 28, 2019.
- ↑ Abakanovich Peter :: Documents on awards :: The First World War . gwar.mil.ru. Date of treatment February 28, 2019.
- ↑ Abakanovich Peter :: Documents on awards :: The First World War . gwar.mil.ru. Date of treatment February 28, 2019.
- ↑ Abakanovich Petr Petrovich :: Card index of losses :: World War I . gwar.mil.ru. Date of treatment February 28, 2019.
- ↑ Abakanovich Peter :: Documents on awards :: The First World War . gwar.mil.ru. Date of treatment February 28, 2019.