Jaroslav Rošický (19 September 1884,

Třešť Třešť (; ) is a town in Jihlava District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,800 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban mo ...

– 25 June 1942,

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) was a Czech army officer. As a soldier he participated in

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, fighting in the Austrian army in Russia and Italy. He was injured in 1917 and returned to

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, later moving to Prague. There he met members of the Czech National Committee, the leading body of the Czech and Czechoslovak independence movements. Rošický and Sokol leader Josef Scheiner were in charge of their respective military operations. During

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, Rošický was a member of the ''captain Nemo'' anti-

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resistance group. In 1942 he was arrested and executed along with his son, communist journalist and athlete

Evžen Rošický Evžen Rošický (15 October 1914 Olomouc – 25 June 1942 Prague) was a Czechoslovak Sportsperson, athlete and journalist. Prague's Stadion Evžena Rošického is named after him. He just missed qualifying in the heats of the Athletics at the 1936 ...

. His brother-in-law was Czech politician Zdeněk Fierlinger.

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1942 deaths 1884 births People from Třešť People from the Margraviate of Moravia Czech military personnel Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany People executed at Kobylisy shooting range Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Czechoslovak civilians killed in World War II {{CzechRepublic-mil-bio-stub