Stefan de Walden was a Polish military commander and engineer. He participated in the fights of the Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy during the Polish-Bolshevik War. During the Invasion of Poland of 1939, he served as the commanding officer of Wicher, a destroyer of the Polish Navy which took part in the Battle of the Gdańsk Bay. After the war, since 1947, he headed the Historical Detachment of the Naval Staff of Poland.
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Stefan de Walden was a Polish military commander and engineer. He participated in the fights of the Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy during the Polish-Bolshevik War. During the Invasion of Poland of 1939, he served as the commanding officer of Wicher, a destroyer of the Polish Navy which took part in the Battle of the Gdańsk Bay. After the war, since 1947, he headed the Historical Detachment of the Naval Staff of Poland.
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Biography In 1917, Stefan de Walden graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg and began his service in the Imperial Russian Navy, with the rank of michman. He was part of the crew of the cruiser Askold, which was gripped by revolutionary sentiments, and was temporarily elected commander of the ship. In March 1919, he reached Poland and was accepted into the emerging Navy, with the rank of naval lieutenant. Initially, he served in the naval battalion in Modlin, then in the Pinsk Flotilla. During Poland's Wedding to the Sea, he was among the officers accompanying General Haller. During the Polish-Soviet War, he was the commander of the armored motorboat MP-1, operating on the Pripyat and the Dnieper. He took part in the battle of Chernobyl with ships of the Bolshevik Dnieper Flotilla on April 27, 1920, which ended with the sinking of one of the Bolshevik gunboats. During the retreat he commanded the ammunition tug "Leon", which was sunk by its own crew in Pripyat. He continued to fight in the Vistula Flotilla during the war. In 1922 he served temporarily in the Navy Command. In 1925 he returned to the sea, as the watch officer of…
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Bibliography de Walden Stefan. [w:] Kolekcja Orderu Wojennego Virtuti Militari; sygn. I.482.34-2551 [on-line]. Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne. [dostęp 2023-12-19]. Kadry morskie Rzeczypospolitej. Tom II: Polska Marynarka Wojenna. Cz. 1: Korpus Oficerów 1918–1947, J.K. Sawicki (red.), J. Czerwiński, M. Czerwińska, Gdynia: Wyższa Szkoła Morska, 1996, ISBN 83-86703-50-4, OCLC 749437567. Barbara Szczepuła: Ile życie jest warte, gdy honor stracony. "Polska", 3 września 2010. de Walden S., de Walden-Gałuszo K., Szarski W.: ORP Wicher i jego dowódca, Zeszyt Helski T. 18, Hel 2013.
