Józef Kos
Józef Kos (27 September 1900 in Bącz – 5 April 2007 in Sierakowice) was one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War and one of the oldest people in Poland at the time of his death. He was an ethnic Kashubian. In 1918 he served for the German Empire in the German Army during the last year of the war. In Kashubia Kos attended a German language school when he was a child living in the small village of Bontsch (Bącz) (near Karthaus (Kartuzy)). In this time it was in West Prussia, part of the German Empire. In summer 1918, just before Kos turned 18 years old, the German Army sent him to train in Rastenburg (Kętrzyn) in East Prussia. He and the other troops trained for three months before they began a march to Belgium, which was on Germany's western front, in order to deploy to the English Channel. After many weeks of marching at 40 kilometers per day, the war ended before reaching their destination. On his journey back to Poland, he witnessed the chaos in Germ ...
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Bącz
Bącz (Kashubian language, Cashubian ''Bãccz'') is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kartuzy, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately west of Kartuzy and west of the regional capital Gdańsk. For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. Józef Kos was born in the village. References

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