Lieutenant-Colonel Stanislaw Koszutski
2nd Armoured Regiment (Poland)

Under hellish fire from cannons and mortars, the 3rd Armoured Squadron supports and covers the first two … The guns were hot to the extreme for all the shots they fired and the crews were all but deaf from the explosions and choking on the smoke. However, it saved the lives of dozens of its colleagues who managed to jump out from the burning tanks. It can be proud of how it performed its task.

(Quoted in Zbigniew Mieczkowski, Horizons, 89)

Born on 15 August 1903 in Kielce region of Poland, Stanislaw Paweł Koszutski was a veteran of the Polish Legion, the Third Silesian uprising, and the Polish-Soviet War. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Polish Army in 1923 and rose through the ranks of the artillery branch. He was captured by the Soviets during the invasion of September 1939 but escaped to join the Polish forces in France and then England.

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