Stanisław Skokowski

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Stanisław Skokowski (born June 30, 1904 in Vilnius, died after 1980 probably in Lvov) - general of the Polish People's Brigade.

The son of a conductor on the Russian railway Norbert and Klotilda from Bartoszewicz, graduated from the Polish gymnasium in Vitebsk and undertook studies at the Technical Institute in Moscow. In 1924, he graduated from the School of Commander in Artillery (School of the Red Merchants) in Moscow and became the commander of the fire brigade in the 27th Regiment of Light Artillery of the Belarusian Military District. From 1930, the platoon leader and the battery commander, 1922 commander of battery 122 mm, from 1933 commander of school battery 2 of Light Artillery Regiment 1 Far East Army, since 1934 commander of squadron, since 1935 head of staff 2 PAL, 1936 completed complementary courses for Artillery officers at the headquarters of the Far East Military District. From 1936 commander of 915 PAL 61 Army, in 1938 on a wave of great purges in the rank of lieutenant colonel released from service and transferred to the reserve due to Polish origin. After the German attack on the USSR in June 1941 mobilized, designated artillery commander of the 346th Infantry Division 61 Army of the Western Front, June 28, 1941 in retreat fighting wounded at Orsza, then injured under Minsk. On June 1, 1942, he was promoted to colonel, on the Brannian Front, then the Stalingrad Front, briefly commanding the 5th Infantry Division infantry at the Battle of Stalingrad, where he was seriously injured in January 1943 and sent to Tambov, then to Moscow. From October 1943 the head of the combat training of the Kyiv Military District, since January 1944 the head of the combat training of the Moscow Artillery Center.

On August 9, 1944, he was assigned to the WP, became commander of the 3rd Brigade of Light Artillery. In the assault of Kołobrzeg, March 31, 1945 he became commander of the 5th Artillery Division organized in Łowicz (until 25 September 1945). From 13 September to 25 November 1945, commander of the 13th Artillery Brigade, later commander of the III Military Artillery in Poznan, December 12, 1946 ended his service in the Polish Army and returned to the USSR. . The course of his service in the Red Army is unknown. He lived in Lviv, where he probably died.

He had an older brother, Wladyslaw, who died in the defense of Leningrad and the younger Leon, the Red Army and the WP. Honors Bibliography

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