page_title: 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade (Poland)
section_title: Organized in 1937
hierarchical_section_title: 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade (Poland) / Organized in 1937
caption_attribution_description: Marian Machocki, in the turret of his Vickers Mark E Type B light tank.
context_page_description: The 10th Cavalry Brigade was a Polish military unit in World War II. It was the only fully operational Polish motorized infantry unit during the Invasion of Poland, as Warsaw Armoured Motorized Brigade was not completed by September 1, 1939.
  Commanded by Colonel, later General Stanisław Maczek, it is considered one of few Polish World War II military units not to have been decisively defeated in 1939. Another was General Franciszek Kleeberg's Independent Operational Group Polesie.
context_section_description: The unit was organized in February 1937, partly as an experiment. It was to be a hybrid between a standard motorized infantry brigade and the French concept of Division legere. As Polish cavalry generals still had some doubts about the value of mechanized forces, there was some opposition against reforming standard cavalry units into motorized units. Testing of the new unit was held in a specially created training ground near Kielce, as well as in the Armoured Units Training School. The brigade was conceived as an emergency unit in the Commander-in-Chief’s reserve. Its task was to screen the areas of concentration of Polish troops, to close gaps made by enemy forces in Polish lines and to fight enemy mechanized units.
caption: 10th Brigade Vickers E tank
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