Brigadier General Bronislaw Prugar - Ketling [1891-1948], commander of the 2nd Infantry Rifle Division, portrait photo in uniform with the gold and silver Virtuti Militari Cross and the badge of the 2nd DSP

Brigadier General Bronislaw Prugar - Ketling [1891-1948], Commander of the 2nd Infantry Rifle Division, portrait photo in uniform with gold and silver Virtuti Militari Cross and badge of the 2nd DSP, f . 14.5 x 19.5cm, RARE

Very good condition

Bronislaw Prugar - Ketling [1891-1948] major general of the Polish Army. During World War I he served in the c.k. army, twice wounded he was taken prisoner in Russia from which he escaped. He joined the Polish Military Organization [1917], and in 1918 joined Haller's Army, with which he returned to the independent Second Republic a year later. He took part in the Polish-Bolshevik war. During the September campaign, he commanded the 11th Carpathian Infantry Division as part of the "Carpathian" Army. Through Hungary, he made his way to France where he was appointed commander of the 2nd Infantry Rifle Division. He participated in the French campaign of 1940. By order of General Władysław Sikorski, he crossed the border into Switzerland, where he spent the rest of the war interned. After World War II, he subordinated himself to the Provisional Government of National Unity and returned to the country. In 1947 he was promoted to the rank of major general. He died in 1948 and was buried in the Powązki Military Cemetery. A few years after his death, his person was named in the so-called "trial of generals" as the organizer of an anti-state conspiracy by a group of senior officers of the Polish Army.