Józef Mączka [SEP] cause of death
Józef Mączka died of cholera in Pashkovska Stanitsa near Yekaterinodar. For his participation in the battles of the Legions and his work in Polish Military Organization, Lt. Mączka has been awarded Virtuti Militari, Cross of Valour, Cross of Independence and Cross of Merit with Swords. In 1933 his corpse was brought to Warsaw and ceremonially buried at Powązki Military Cemetery.
Józef Mączka was also a known poet, the most important poet of Polish Legions. On the Christmas Eve of 1914 he wrote a Christmas carol for the Legions. In
Józef Mączka
Józef Mieczysław Mączka (2 June 1888– 9 September 1918) was a Polish soldier, poet of the Polish Legions.
He was born in the village of Zaleszany to Franciszek Mączka, who as a teenager fought in the January Uprising in 1863.
Józef Mączka attended primary school in Oleszyce, later grammar schools (gymnasiums) in Lwów, Sanok, and since 1905 in Rzeszów, where he graduated in 1907. He later started engineering studies at the Lwów Polytechnic.
In 1913 he became a member