Henryk Sucharski

World War I PolishSoviet War PolishLithuanian War Polish Defensive War

Sucharski was born on November 12, 1898, in Grboszw, a village near Tarnw, to a peasant family. He finished a local biyearly trade school and then a similar school in Otfinw. In early 1917 he graduated from the 2nd KuK Gymnasium in Tarnw and on Februaryhe volunteered for service with the AustroHungarian Army. During his service in the March Battalion of the Bochniabased 32nd Landwehr Regiment, he passed his matura exams and in February 1918 graduated from an officers school in Opatw. Dispatched with his regiment to the Italian front of the Great War, Sucharski was infected with malaria and spent the remainder of the war in various hospitals in Sanstino and then Celje.

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