Edmund Wacław Heldut - Tarnasiewicz alias " Heldut " (17 July 1892–April 1952). He was the senior colonel and commander of the Polish Army cavalry, a senior military official of the Polish Armed Forces in the West, who received Poland's highest military award, the Virtuti Militari, one of the oldest military decorations in the world still in use. He was heavily involved in World War I, the Polish–Soviet War, and World War II (Invasion of Poland, Soviet invasion of Poland: Battle of Grodno (1939)). Heldut was promoted to General, but the promotion was never confirmed due to the outbreak of Worl
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Edmund Wacław Heldut - Tarnasiewicz alias " Heldut " (17 July 1892–April 1952). He was the senior colonel and commander of the Polish Army cavalry, a senior military official of the Polish Armed Forces in the West, who received Poland's highest military award, the Virtuti Militari, one of the oldest military decorations in the world still in use. He was heavily involved in World War I, the Polish–Soviet War, and World War II (Invasion of Poland, Soviet invasion of Poland: Battle of Grodno (1939)). Heldut was promoted to General, but the promotion was never confirmed due to the outbreak of World War II. On October 6, 2021, President Andrzej Duda officially and posthumously confirmed Heldut to Brigadier General.
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Edmund Heldut was born on 17 July 1892, the son of John and Victoria from the family of Gajewski. He graduated from high school in 1909 in his home city of Radom and then from the School of Wawelberg and Rotwand in 1912 (the school was absorbed by the Warsaw University of Technology in 1951). In the latter year, he enrolled at the Ghent University, Belgium and was active with the Riflemen's Association. In July 1914, he began work in Kraków as an instructor. Upon the outbreak of World War I he joined the First Cadre Company. From 20 August 1914 he served in a military branch led by Władysław Belina-Prażmowski later becoming the 1st Uhlans Regiment of Polish Legions in World War I. In this unit, Tarnasiewicz stayed until the Oath Crisis in 1917. He was interned and imprisoned in a camp as a prisoner of war in Szczypiorno. During the service in this legion, he attained the rank of Senior Uhlan. He used the pseudonym of "Heldut", and later took this name as his official name. After his release, he enrolled at the Warsaw University of Technology in 1918. At the end of the war in 1918, he…
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Personal life and legacy In the 1920s, Tarnasiewicz married Wanda Leokadia, the daughter of a Szlachta noble Polish landowner Julian Vincent - Skalski, who has acquired the Vincent wealth. They had a daughter named Danuta (1929-2011, after her husband Brodowska, operating in the Polish National Armed Forces, later a teacher in Lublin) and a son named Andrew. Heldut-Tarnasiewicz was a friend of Józef Piłsudski attending his funeral in 1935. Their relationship reaches back to World War I when Heldut joined the First Cadre Company founded by Józef Piłsudski. After WWI, Poland faced further aggressions from the East. The Polish victory against the Soviets in 1921 was a great boost to Heldut's military career which raised him to the high rank of senior colonel of the Polish cavalry. The historic victory against the Soviets in the Polish-Soviet War stopped Bolshevism in spreading into Western and other parts of Europe. The British military historian and general J. F. C. Fuller ranks the Battle of Warsaw (1920), and the Polish victory in the war, as one of the most decisive victories in history since it prevented Soviet influence from spreading to the borders of Germany, Hungary and Romania at a critical stage in…
