Stefan de Walden was a Polish military commander and engineer. He participated in the fights of the

Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy The Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy ( pl, Flotylla Rzeczna Marynarki Wojennej), better known as the ''Pinsk Flotilla'', was the inland branch of the Polish Navy operating on the Vistula river and in the area of the Pinsk Marshes (Dnieper– ...

during the Polish-Bolshevik War. During the Invasion of Poland of 1939, he served as the commanding officer of ''Wicher'', a destroyer of the Polish Navy which took part in the

Battle of the Gdańsk Bay __NOTOC__ The Battle of Danzig Bay ( pl, bitwa w Zatoce Gdańskiej) took place on 1 September 1939, at the beginning of the invasion of Poland, when Polish Navy warships were attacked by German Luftwaffe aircraft in Gdańsk Bay (then Danzig Bay ...

. After the war, since 1947, he headed the Historical Detachment of the Naval Staff of Poland.

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