WIRTUALNE MUZEUM

Virtual Museum

Wirtualne Muzeum

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    BILIŃSKI-STALGIS, EDWARD EWALD

    Edward Biliński-Stalgis, year 1938; source: archives of Czesław Dawidowicz

    born: October 4, 1919, Vilnius

    died: 1993, Sydney, Australia  

    medals: Polish – Virtuti Military 5th class; Cross of Valour; Italian – Silver medal of Bologna for liberation city (year 1945) 

    Fates before joining Anders Army:

    A graduate of the State Adam Mickiewicz Junior High School in Vilnius before World War II (1938).

    Military history at Anders Army:

    Lieutenant of the 9th Carpathian Rifle Battalion of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division of the 2nd Corps (ID military no. 1919/158), participant in the Italian campaign. In the Battle of Bologna, the commander of the 3rd company of the 9th Battalion, which together with the 4th company were the first to enter the liberated city. For this deed, Lieutenant Stalgis and his soldiers (and other selected soldiers of the 2nd Corps) were solemnly decorated by the authorities of the city of Bologna. Lieutenant Stalgis, along with other Polish commanders, was awarded the Silver Medal.

    Post-War: He emigrated and lived in Australia until his death. He died in 1993.

    ABOUT THE PROJECT

    “Polish 2nd Corps Virtual Museum” is a long-term project, initiated in 2021 on the initiative of the World Polonia Council (Rada Polonii Świata) and Mrs. Teresa Berezowska from Canada, implemented in partnership with the Polska360 Foundation from Warsaw, which since 2015 has been implementing a number of projects documenting the fate of the soldiers of the 2nd Corps ( including a project of biographical interviews with soldiers of the 2nd Corps from Poland and Great Britain, 2016-2017, the exhibition “Ruins at the Monte Cassino – the fate of the Kresowiaks – soldiers of the 2nd Corps” – financed by the Office for Veterans and Victims of Oppression; caring for 2 Corps combatants in Poland or permanent cooperation from 2017 with the Association of Former Soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces in the West “Carpathians” from Warsaw). Read more...

    O PROJEKCIE

    “Wirtualne Muzeum 2 Korpusu” jest projektem wieloletnim, zainicjowanym w 2021 r. z inicjatywy Rady Polonii Świata i Pani Teresy Berezowskiej z Kanady, realizowanym w partnerstwie z Fundacją Polska360 z Warszawy, która od 2015 r. realizuje szereg projektów dokumentujących losy żołnierzy 2 Korpusu (m.in. projekt notacji biograficznych z żołnierzami 2 Korpusu z Polski i Wielkiej Brytanii, 2016-2017, wystawa “Gruzy na szczycie – losy Kresowiaków – żołnierzy 2 Korpusu” – ze środków Urzędu do Spraw Kombatantów i Osób Represjonowanych; sprawowanie opieki nad kombatantami 2 Korpusu czy stała współpraca od 2017 r. ze Stowarzyszeniem Byłych Żołnierzy Polskich Sił Zbrojnych na Zachodzie “Karpatczycy” z Warszawy). Czytaj dalej...

    PARTNERZY

    The project is financed by the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Republic of Poland as part of the Polonia and Poles Abroad 2022 competition.
    The publication only expresses the views of the author(s) and cannot be equated with the official position of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland.

    Projekt finansowany ze środków Kancelarii Prezesa Rady Ministrów w ramach konkursu „Polonia i Polacy za Granicą 2022”.
    Publikacja wyraża jedynie poglądy autora/ów i nie może być utożsamiana z oficjalnym stanowiskiem Kancelarii Prezesa Rady Ministrów.

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