Władysław Wejtko [SEP] date of birth
Władysław Wejtko
Władysław Wejtko (1859-1933) was an Imperial Russian Army general of Polish descent. He fought on the side of the Second Polish Republic as a major-general in Józef Piłsudski's forces during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921.
Biography.
Born on February 1 to Polish family, 1859 in Livonia, (Russian Empire), his family soon moved to the provinces surrounding the Black Sea, possibly as part of the repercussions facing Poles in the aftermath of the failed January Uprising
on the outskirts of Wilno and retreated in the direction of the Regency Poland. The area changed hands several times over the next few months during the struggle of various opposing forces in the Vilna offensive of April 19–21, 1919, as well as in Operation Minsk of early August 1919.
After January 8, 1919, most of the 'Samoobrona' forces were gradually restructured into a single military unit, the 1st Lithuanian-Belarusian Division, under the command of General Władysław Wejtko. It became officially part of the newly formed