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On Friday our Museum in Łambinowice and the Site of National Remembrance were visited by a group of  reconstructors from the Szwadron Przysiecz association whose aim is to preserve the tradition of The 9th Lesser Poland Uhlan Regiment. The group was established to cultivate cavalry values and popularise the knowledge of history and horsemanship. The members of the group, on horses and in full gear could be admired during the Sunday cavalry parade in Opole which was organized on the occasion of the Feast of the Polish Armed Forces.

On the occasion of this visit, it is worth to remind about POW episodes related to the history of this military formation. The forth commander of the 9th Lesser Poland Uhlan Regiment, Colonel Stanisław Pomianowski (1921-1927), after 17 of September 1939, as a retired officer, was arrested by the NKVD and detained in the prison at 17 Korolenkiewska Street in Kiev. Probably it was there, where he was murdered and his name appears on the Ukrainian Katyń List. Another, the most known commander of the regiment, was General Tadeusz Komorowski (1928-1938), who, from July 1943, was Commander-in-Chief of the Home Army. After the fall of the Warsaw Uprising, he was taken to the German captivity, first to Oflag 73 Nürnberg-Langwasser, and then to further POW camps. After the war, he became involved in activity on exile, where he held the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and prime minister of the Polish Government in exile. A different fate awaited Major Włodzimierz Łączyński of the 9th Lesser Poland Uhlan Regiment. After the defeat in September 1939, he got through Hungary to France, where he became the commander of the 3rd Reconnaissance Detachment, whose ranks were dominated by the soldiers of the above mentioned regiment.  In July 1940, Major Łączyński was captured by the Germans and taken to Oflag VI B Dössel. He died there during an accidental bombing of the camp by the British Air Force on 27 September 1944.