How to check whether your relative served in the 13th Wilenski Rifle Battalion „Rysiow” ?

 

How to check whether your relative served in the 13th Wilenski Rifle Battalion „Rysiow” ?

Below, a few hints how to check it:

1. The list of soldiers (incomplete):

http://rysie.montecassino.eu/lista-zolnierzy-alfabetyczna

If you possess:

2.  the Monte Cassino Commemorative Cross (serial numbers 15376 to 16136 refer to the 13th Wilenski Rifle Battalion „Rysiow”)

 

3. the hat badge:

4. documents:

If any documents survived, please look at the following photographs (information concerning the battalion was highlighted in red):

a) the certificate entitling to wear British decorations:

b) the personal card:

c) the award certificate for the 5th Kresowa Infantry Division Commemorative Badge:

d) the certificate of military service (UK Ministry of Defence):

e) the excerpt concerning the War Order of Virtuti Militari:

f) the recording card:

g) the award certificate for the Cross of Valour:

h) the one of recording card pages:

i) the death certificate:

j) the award certificate for the Monte Cassino Commemorative Cross:

k) the award certificate for the 2nd Polish Corps Commemorative Badge:

l) the officers’ pay book:

m) the excerpt concerning the Cross of Valour:

n) the military service book issued after a return to Poland:

o) the award certificate for wound badges:

p) the excerpt concerning the Army Medal for War 1939-1945: