gen. Władysław Anders

Władysław Albert Anders (11 August 1892 – 12 May 1970) was a General in the Polish Army.Anders was born on 11 August 1892 to his Baltic-German father Albert Anders and his mother Elizabeth, born Tauchert, in the village of Krośniewice–Błonie, near Kutno which at that time was part of the Russian Empire (Partitions of Poland). He had two brothers - Karol and Tadeusz. He was baptized as a member of the Protestant Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.             While an undergraduate at Riga Technical University Anders became a member of the Polish student fraternity Arkonia. As a young officer, he served Tsar Nicholas II in the 1st Krechowiecki Lancers Regiment during World War I, later joining the Polish Army and again serving in cavalry as a commanding officer in 15th Poznań Uhlans Regiment.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Bartosz Kawa