Colonel Marian Wieroński
3rd Rifle Brigade (Poland)

I made personnel changes to the more important positions. Current suitability for combat was the decisive factor … Colonel Wieroński was a very good infantryman, decorated by me with the Virtuti Militari Order for the Battle of Potigny on 15 August; however, he had not taken to the particular nature of combat … and thought that someone else would be better in this position.

 —General Stanisław Maczek

(Quoted in Jenny Grant, Price of Victory)

Born on 2 August 1896 in Krakow, Marian Stanisław Wieroński was a long-serving infantry officer in the Polish Army. After a series of promotions and postings, he had advanced to lieutenant-colonel by March 1937. He commanded the 3rd Rifle Battalion during the invasion of Poland in September 1939. He escaped to France where he commanded the 9th Infantry Regiment before the fall and occupation of the country to German forces.

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