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Committee for the Defence of the Eastern Borderlands

Committee for the Defence of the Eastern Borderlands.Seated from left: Olgierd Gordziałkowski, Władysław Raczkiewicz, Mirosław Obiezierski, Michał Kossakowski [pl]. Also visible: Michał Obiezierski, Czesław Krasicki, I. Witkiewicz, Władysław Marian Zawadzki [pl] (sitting 2nd from right), Wacław Wasilewski, Antoni Jundziłł, M. Parafianowicz, Czesław Krupski [pl], M. Boguszewski, W. Pusłowski, E. Obrąpalski

The Committee for the Defence of the Eastern Borderlands (Polish: Komitet Obrony Kresów Wschodnich) was established in late November 1918 in Warsaw. It emerged from the so-called Lithuanian Committee, established in the same city in early 1917.

It provided political patronage for the emerging volunteer military self-defense units of the pro-Polish Self-Defence of Lithuania and Belarus. One of its tasks was to campaign for their incorporation into the Polish Army through the creation of a Lithuanian–Belarusian Division. This goal was achieved on November 26, 1918, when Chief of State Józef Piłsudski agreed to the creation of such a division.[1]

Władysław Raczkiewicz was the Committee's chairman.[2]

References

  1. ^ Wyszczelski 2010, pp. 39–40.
  2. ^ Filipow 1988, p. 193.

Bibliography

  • Wyszczelski, Lech (2010). Wojna polsko-rosyjska 1919–1920 (in Polish). Vol. 1 (1 ed.). Warszawa: Bellona. p. 696. ISBN 978-83-11-11934-5.
  • Filipow, Krzysztof (1988). "Samoobrona polska na Kresach Wschodnich 1918-1919" (PDF). Zeszyt Naukowy Muzeum Wojska (in Polish). 2.
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