I have been trying to locate additional military service
information about my father, Aleksander Trojanowski (1909-1972), who was from
the Village of Horodyszcze, a rural
municipality Krzywoszyn, in the Baranowicze
district of the Nowogródek province
in Poland.
Recently, the International Tracing Service sent me a
document that contained basic information about his military service and some
other information as follows:
·?????? Attended elementary
school in Kol. Horodyszcze, Poland from 1916 to 1923
·?????? Served as an enlisted
man in the Polish Calvary from 1935 to September 1939 at the “Fortress” in
Baranowicze
·?????? Captured by the
Germany army in September 1939
·?????? Prisoner of War in
Demblin, Poland
·?????? Prisoner of War in
Stalag II-A in Neubrandenburg, Germany from October 1939 to? November 1940
·?????? Prisoner of War in
Stalag 13-B in Weiden, Germany from November to December 1940
·?????? Prisoner of War and
worked in a stone pit in Marktredwitz, Germany from December 1940 to May 1945
·?????? Liberated in May 1945
·?????? Lived in a Displaced
Persons Camp in Marktredwitz, Germany from May to October 1945
·?????? Served in the United
States Army’s 112th Labor Supervision Center as a military guard in
Nurnberg, Bamberg, Breitengussbach, and Furth, Germany from October 1945 to
November 1951
·?????? Emigrated to the
United States in December 1951
?
His military tile was listed as "Master," could that mean master sergeant?
Are there other members of the group who had relatives stationed
in Baranowicze or imprisoned at one of the above Prisoner of War camps?
I have contacted the Central
Military Archives in Warsaw and the Polish Archive of the Ministry of National Defense who do not have any record
of my father’s service.? Does anyone have
any suggestions about whom I should contact next about military records?
I did a
Google search for “Calvary, Fortress, and Baranowicze” and came up with the
following: Nowogródzka Cavalry Brigade
headquartered was in Baranowicze.? Can anyone recommend
a book about this Brigade?
Thanks so much.
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