We will make the memory of Lieutenant Piotr Konieczki and the borderer Szczepan Ławniczak – said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, paying tribute to defenders who died on September 1, 1939. The lieutenant was most likely the first Polish soldier to die in the Second War. He was posthumously appointed as an officer, and his name will be worn by a unit from West Pomerania.
– 86 years ago, the destiny of the planet and Poland changedwhich was brutally attacked by a German invader. The bloodiest and most cruel war in the past of the planet began – said Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence in Śmiłów, Wielkopolska. There were celebrations to commemorate the first fallen soldiers during planet War II.
The head of the MON stressed that a cruel communicative besides showed the fine behaviour of the defenders and their love for their homeland. "It is not easy love, it requires commitment and devotion, as the soldiers of the Polish Army vow, who are ready for it "to spare their own blood and to spare their lives," said the Deputy Prime Minister. He recalled that the oath was besides about the lieutenant. Piotr Konieczki and borderer Szczepan Lawniczak, who were commemorated present in Smiłów. – present we want to make these 2 heroes celebrated in Poland and possibly in the world. We want to show them to be an example of love for their homeland," said Kosiniak-Kamish. Lieutenant Piotr Konieczka (then corporal) served at the post on the Polish border with the 3rd Reich on the night of 31 August 1939. The border passed through the territory of the current Pilski district. – He stood at the station until the end, defended Polish borders, was wounded, and then in a beastly way killed with firearm flasks," said the Deputy Prime Minister. He besides mentioned murdered that same night by the Germans Stephen the juror, a border defender officer.
According to the head of the MON, the actions of the 3rd Reich, and then the russian Union, were aimed at bringing demolition and destruction. – But evil has lost and so it will happen today, including in Ukraine – said the minister. At the same time, he stressed that we must be strong and that is why we are building the strongest army in Europe. We gotta increase spending on the army, encourage service in the army, build fresh domains in armed forces, for example. Cyber Or space.
Kosiniak-Kamish besides thanked the residents for their concern for the memory of the heroic lieutenant Kosenzka. – Śmiłowo remembers, and so besides Poland remembers, due to the fact that if there is simply a memory in even the smallest town, it means that we are doing this brutal, hard past lesson one more time – the Deputy Prime Minister said. He besides announced that the celebrations in Smiłów would be permanently included in the celebration of the anniversary of the outbreak of the Second War.
The head of the MON handed the soldier's descendants an officer's patent, confirming that Piotr Konieczka, in designation of merit for his participation in the struggles for independency of the Polish state, was posthumously appointed by the president of Poland as lieutenant. Deputy Prime Minister informed that shortly 1 of the military units in the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodeship will bear the name of Lieutenant Konieczki.
The celebrations in Smiłów ended with the appeal of memory and the laying of wreaths on the graves of Lt. Koniecko and Stephen Lavniczak. Earlier in the church there was a Mass for the dead.
Piotr Konieczka was a farmer, he came from Pomerania. In the 1920s, he and his household moved to Wielkopolska, where he bought a farm. In the spring of 1939 he was mobilized, serving in a platoon strengthening the Border defender Station in Kaczory, at the border station in Lakes close Piła. On September 1, 1939, at about 1.30 a.m., a German diversion group attacked the facility. After a short fight, the Polish crew withdrew, while Lieutenant Koniecka remained on the site, who was covering their retreat, firing a device gun. During the fire exchange, around 1.40 p.m., a soldier was shot, wounded Germans were killed by rifles.
Lieutenant Koniecko was the first victim of the Second War in Wielkopolska, and according to historians he could besides be the first Polish soldier to die in this conflict. The soldier rests at the cemetery in Smilów. In 2010 he was awarded posthumously by the president of Poland with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Stephen Lavniczak, a border defender officer, besides rests at the cemetery in Śmiłów. On September 1, 1939, he served at the SG facility in Zelgniew. From 1:00 a.m., the staff of the facility had been repelling the first German diversion attacks. At the time of his retreat, the jury fell into a German ambush and was brutally murdered.
