Jan Kubiš (Operation Anthropoid)
| Jan Kubiš | |
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| Born | 24 June 1913 Dolní Vilémovice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (present-day Czech Republic) |
| Died | 18 June 1942 (aged 28) Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (present day Czech Republic) |
| Buried | Ďáblice cemetery |
| Allegiance |
 Czechoslovakia France 1939–40 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
Czechoslovak army French Foreign Legion Czechoslovak army in-exile |
| Years of service | 1935–38 1939–40 1940–42 † |
| Rank | Rotmistr (Staff Sergeant) |
| Unit | Special Operations Executive |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards |
Croix de Guerre Československý válečný kříž 1939 |
Jan Kubiš (24 June 1913 – 18 June 1942) was a Czech soldier, one of a team of Czechoslovak British-trained paratroopers sent to eliminate acting Reichsprotektor (Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid.
Jan Kubiš was born in 1913 in Dolní Vilémovice, Moravia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Jan was a Boy Scout.
Jan Kubiš, having previously been an active member of Orel, started his military career as a Czechoslovak army conscript on 1 November 1935 by 31st Infantry Regiment "Arco" in Jihlava. After passing petty officer course and promotion to corporal, Kubiš served some time in Znojmo before being transferred to 34th infantry regiment "Marksman Jan Čapek" in Opava, where he served at guard battalion stationed in Jakartovice. Here, Kubiš reached promotion to platoon sergeant.
During the Czechoslovak mobilization of 1938, Kubiš served as deputy commander of a platoon in Czechoslovak border fortifications in the Opava area. Following the Munich Agreement and demobilization, Kubiš was discharged from army on 19 October 1938 and returned to his civilian life, working at a brick factory.
At the eve of World War II, on 16 June 1939, Kubiš fled Czechoslovakia and joined a forming Czechoslovak unit in Kraków, Poland. Soon he was transferred to Algiers, where he entered the French Foreign Legion. He fought in France during the early stage of World War II and received his Croix de guerre there.
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