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Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski

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Polish army officer (1894-2005)

United KingdomLived 1894 to 2005 · aged 111
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Jerzy Kazimierz Pajączkowski-Dydyński was a Polish veteran of World War I living in the United Kingdom. In 1915, he was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army, and he later fought for Poland, reaching the rank of colonel.

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Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Decade of Independence Regained
Silver Cross of Merit
Commemorative Medal for the War of 1918-1921
Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Karl Troop Cross
Cross of Valour (1920)

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Franz RudorferAlso won Karl Troop CrossAdam KogutAlso won Decade of Independence RegainedKazimierz MoszyńskiAlso won Cross of Valour (1920)Kazimierz SchallyAlso won Decade of Independence RegainedKarol AndersAlso won Cross of Valour (1920)Adolf HeyrowskyAlso won Karl Troop Cross

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Jerzy Kazimierz Pajączkowski-Dydyński was a Polish veteran of World War I living in the United Kingdom. In 1915, he was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army, and he later fought for Poland, reaching the rank of colonel. Upon the German invasion of Poland that triggered World War II in 1939, he escaped with his family to Romania, then France and finally England after France capitulated to Germany in June 1940. In later life he worked as a gardener in Scotland before moving to Cumbria with his daughter. He died at a nursing home, aged 111 years and 140 days, and had been Britain's oldest living man.

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United Kingdom
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deceased
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Lived 1894 to 2005 · aged 111
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