Lot 137
Poland, The Virtuti Militari group of fourteen to W.M.Mikulicz-Radecki, Polish Army,
26 September 2012, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,280 inc. premium
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Poland, The Virtuti Militari group of fourteen to W.M.Mikulicz-Radecki, Polish Army,
Virtuti Militari, 5th class breast badge, numbered (4281) on reverse; Independence Medal; Cross of Valour, type IV, unnumbered, with three bars; Cross of Merit, Type 1, 1st Class gold issue; Commemorative Medal for the War, 1918-21; Medal for the 10th Anniversary of Restoration of Independence; Ten Year Long Service Medal; Twenty Year Long Service Medal; Army Medal, type 1; 1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; Belgium, Order of Leopold, Officer's breast badge; France, Legion of Honour, Knight's breast badge. Generally very fine. (Lot)
Footnotes
The lot comes with the remains of the booklet for the VM numbered 4281 and with a photograph of him in the booklet wearing uniform and the medal. Together with a studio portrait photograph of him wearing his medals aditionally including a WW1 Victory Medal.
Witold Marian Mikulicz-Radecki was born on 4th June 1891 at Lipka estate in Volhynia. Russian army officer, and since February 1918 horsepower unit Commander and Adjutant of General Dowbor Musnicki in I Corps East. In 1919, he served as adjutant to Headquarters Army Wielkopolska in Poznan, and then he was in the committee setting the German-Polish border.
Appointed Lieutenant Colonel General Staff of January 1st 1927. He was commander of the 6 Cavalry Regiment from March 1928 to May 1930, and then returned to the lecturer in the history of wars to the Military Academy. From 1935 to 1937 he served as commander of the 2nd Regiment of Cavalry, and then returns to the previous position in the Military Academy. He was appointed Colonel 19th March 1937.
He was assigned in 1939 to the Polish Military Mission in France, and later became head of the Cabinet of the Commander in Chief in France and England. He was Military Attache from February 1941 to November 1942 serving alongside the Belgians and Dutch. He was additionally liaison officer between 1942-1946 with the Forces Command of the Free French and later a military attache in Paris.
He remained in the UK after WW2 living in London. The Supreme Commander promoted him to Brigadier General with seniority on 1st January 1964. He died on 1st February 1979, he is buried in North Sheen Cemetry.