Senate remembers ‘Bór’ Komorowski
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
04.08.2016 15:16
Polish senators have paid tribute to General Tadeusz “Bór” Komorowski, a prominent military leader, commander of the Home Army during the German occupation of Poland in World War Two.
General Tadeusz “Bór” Komorowski. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
In a resolution adopted to mark the 50th anniversary of General Komorowski’s death, the Senate, the Upper House of the Polish Parliament, describes him as an outstanding Pole who played an important role in many dramatic events of the 20th century, “the legendary commander of the largest underground army in the history of World War Two”.
It was on Komorowski’s orders that the Warsaw Uprising broke out on 1 August 1944.
Earlier in his military career, Komorowski fought, and was wounded, in the Polish-Soviet War of 1920.
He was a member of the Polish equestrian team at the Olympic games in Paris in 1924 and in Berlin in 1936.
After the war, General Komorowski lived in England, serving from 1947 to 1949 as Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile. He died in London on 24 August 1966, aged 71.
His honours include the Cross of Valour, the Gold Cross of Merit, the Virtuti Militari and the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest state distinction, which he was awarded posthumously in 1995.
A year earlier his ashes were brought from London to the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw. (mk/rg)