page_title: Tadeusz Klimecki
section_title: Service in the Polish Army
hierarchical_section_title: Tadeusz Klimecki / Service in the Polish Army
caption_attribution_description: English: Winston Churchill reviewing Polish troops in England
context_page_description: Tadeusz Klimecki – Brigadier General of the Polish Army, Chief of Polish General Staff.
context_section_description: From November 1918 served in the Polish Army. Between November 1918 and October 1925 he was a company and battalion commander in the 16th Infantry Regiment, Tarnów and during the war with the Bolsheviks, he commanded the regiment (31.VII-4.VIII.1920). From October 1925 to October 1927 he was student of the Highest Military School in Warsaw, after which he was Chief of Staff of the 12th Infantry Division in Tarnopol until 1930. During the years 1930–1934 he was professor of tactics at the Higher Military School in Warsaw.
  Between January 1934 – 1936 – Deputy Commander of the 18 Infantry Regiment in Skierniewice.
  1936–1938 – Commander of the 5th Podhale Rifles Regiment in Przemyśl.
  From 1938 to September 1939 he was Head of the course at the Higher Military School in Warsaw, after which he was appointed to the Division III of the General Staff as a Chief of the Department of Operations. After the September campaign he moved to France.
  December 1939 – June 1940 Head of Division III, Polish General Staff in France.
  July 1940 – July 1943 Chief of the General Staff of the Supreme Commander in London.
  He died in the plane crash on July 4, 1943, in Gibraltar, together with the Polish Prime-Minister and Commander-in-Chief General Władysław Sikorski and his staff. Tadeusz Klimecki was buried in the cemetery of Polish airmen in Newark-on-Trent, England.
  On December 3, 2010, bodies of Tadeusz Klimecki, Andrzej Marecki and Józef Ponikiewski were exhumed, flown to Warsaw and then taken to the Department of Forensic Medicine in Cracow for examination. On December 9, 2010  Tadeusz Klimecki  and Andrzej Marecki were buried in the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.
caption: Gen.Sikorski, Gen.Klimecki and Winston Churchill, reviewing Polish troops in England.
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