Stefan Marian Strzemieński was a general of the

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, who participated in the

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. Born in 1885, he gained the command of a cavalry brigade in the early 1920s, and then of the garrison of

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. Strzemieński retired in 1932, but was recalled to the army in 1939, becoming commandant of the Operational Group

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. Strzemieński was taken prisoner by the Germans and passed the remainder of the war in a

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camp. He was released in 1945, he died in 1955. The location of neither his birth nor his death is known.

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