Organization During 1944-45
1st Armoured Division - General Stanisław Maczek - comprising:-
- 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade (10 Brygada Kawalerii Pancernej) - Col. T. Majewski
- 1st Polish Armoured Regiment (1 pułk pancerny) - Lt.Col. Aleksander Stefanowicz
- 2nd Polish Armoured Regiment (2 pułk pancerny) - Lt.Col. S. Koszustki
- 24th Polish Lancers Regiment (Armoured; 24 pułk ułanów im. Hetmana Żółkiewskiego) - Lt.Col. J. Kański
- 10th Polish Dragoons Regiment (10 pułk dragonów zmotoryzowanych) - Lt.Col. Władysław Zgorzelski
- 3rd Polish Infantry Brigade (3 Brygada Piechoty) - Col. Marian Wieroński
- 1st Polish Highland Battalion (1 battalion Strzelców Podhalańskich) - Lt.Col. K. Complak
- 8th Polish Rifle Battalion (8 battalion strzelców) - Lt.Col. Aleksander Nowaczyński
- 9th Polish Rifle Battalion (9 battalion strzelców flandryjskich) - Lt.Col. Zygmunt Szydłowski
- 1st Polish Independent HMG Squadron (samodzielna kompania ckm.) - Maj. M. Kochanowski
- Divisional Artillery (Artyleria dywizyjna) - Col. B. Noel
- 1st Polish Motorized Artillery Regiment (1 pułk artylerii motorowej) - Lt.Col. J. Krautwald
- 2nd Polish Motorized Artillery Regiment (2 pułk artylerii motorowej) - Lt.Col. K. Meresch
- 1st Polish Anti-Tank Regiment (formed in 1945 from smaller units) (1 pułk artylerii przeciwpancernej) - Major R. Dowbór
- 1st Polish Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment (1 pułk artylerii przeciwlotniczej) - Lt.Col. O. Eminowicz, later Maj. W. Berendt
- Other Units
- 10th Polish Mounted Rifle Regiment (10 pułk strzelców konnych) (amoured reconnaissance equipped with Cromwell tanks) - Maj. J. Maciejowski
- HQ, Military Police,
- engineers (saperzy dywizyjni) - Lt.Col. J. Dorantt
- signals (1 batalion łączności) - Lt.Col. J. Grajkowski
- administration, military court, chaplaincy, reserve squadrons, medical services.
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