1st Armoured Division (Poland) - Organization During 1944-45

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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