Adam Koc
| Adam Koc | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Adam Ignacy Koc August 8, 1891 Suwałki, Congress Poland |
| Died | February 3, 1969 (aged 77) New York City |
| Resting place |
Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford, England 51°47′29″N 1°16′24″W / 51.79131°N 1.27321°W |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Political party | Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government (BBWR) |
| Other political affiliations |
Camp of National Unity (OZN) |
| Profession | soldier, journalist |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Awards | Virtuti Militari, Order of Polonia Restituta Officer's Cross, Cross of Valour (Poland), Cross of Independence, Officer's Star "Parasol", Legion d'honneur Officier |
| Military service | |
| Years of service | 1915-1924 |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles/wars | First World War, Polish-Soviet War |
Adam Ignacy Koc (31 August 1891 in Suwałki, Congress Poland – 3 February 1969 in New York City) was a Polish politician, soldier and journalist. Koc, who had several noms de guerre (Witold, Szlachetny, Adam Krajewski), fought in Polish units in the World War One, and in the Polish-Soviet War. In the Second Polish Republic, he was a politician, deputy to the Sejm, officer of the Polish Army, journalist and a member of the Grand Orient of Poland.
Together with younger brother Leon Waclaw, who later became a Colonel of the Polish Army, Adam Koc attended a Boys High School in Suwalki. During the Revolution of 1905, he was a member of a strike committee at his high school.
After graduation Koc joined Polish military organizations Union of Active Struggle and the Riflemen's Association. In 1912, he completed officer’s course organized by the Association near Limanowa, in Austrian Galicia. On August 10, 1914, Koc came to Warsaw, to take command of the local branch of the Union of Active Struggle. Soon afterwards, the Union of Active Struggle and the Riflemen's Association in Congress Poland united under leadership of Karol Rybasiewicz. Koc became his deputy, and on October 22, 1914, the new body was named the Polish Military Organisation (POW).
In May 1915 Koc, under the pseudonym “Witold”, he left Congress Poland with reports for Jozef Pilsudski. Afterwards, he joined the 5th Infantry Regiment of the Polish Legions, and on September 18, 1916, he was severely wounded in the Battle of Sitowicze, Volhynia. After the Oath crisis, Koc was on July 17, 1917 interned in the camp at Beniaminow, while his brother Leon was imprisoned at Szczypiorno. Adam Koc was released in April 1918, and returned to his activities in the Polish Military Organisation, taking command of the POW’s branch in Warsaw. On November 10, 1918, together with Prince Zdzislaw Lubomirski, he welcomed Jozef Pilsudski, who returned by train to Warsaw from internment in Magdeburg.
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