Aleksander Narbutt-Łuczyński

Who was Aleksander Narbutt-Łuczyński?

Aleksander Narbutt-Łuczyński was a Polish lawyer and military officer, a general of the Polish Army and a veteran of both the Polish-Bolshevik War and the World War II. Born February 28, 1890 in Skierniewice, he graduated from the faculty of philosophy of the Lwów University. After that he moved to Belgium, where he graduated from the faculty of law of the University of Liège. After the outbreak of World War I he returned to Austro-Hungarian Galicia and volunteered for the Polish Legions. In October 1914 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and then in March of the following year - to Captain. After Poland regained her independence in 1918 he joined the newly formed Polish Army and took part in the Polish-Bolshevik War in the rank of Major, and then Colonel. After the war he remained in the army and in 1924 was promoted to brigadier general. He served on various command posts in the interbellum. During the Invasion of Poland he commanded the rear troops of the Kraków Army. Taken prisoner of war in Romania, he made his way to France, where he remained in the officers' reserve of the commander-in-chief.