To the Unknown Soldier - Memorial Album - under the patronage of the Minister of Military Affairs - General Lucjan Żeligowski.
Published by KULTPOL Publishing Office, Warsaw 1925
Album published to commemorate soldiers killed during World War I.
Contains 17 photographs of Polish Army generals and 61 pages of text and several photographs in the text.
Hardcover, publisher's, Glued edges of pages with photographs of generals, loss of a section of pages at two photographs.
Otherwise very good condition.
Format : 25 x 17 [cm].
Rarity.
The year 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the unveiling of the monument to the Unknown Soldier in Lodz and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, which was unveiled on November 2, 1925 in the central arcade of the colonnade of the Saxon Palace.
On that day, the remains of an unidentified soldier, brought in a special ceremony from the cemetery of the Defenders of Lviv, were placed in it. The creator of the tomb was the sculptor Stanislaw Kazimierz Ostrowski.
