Stefan de Walden

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Stefan de Walden was a Polish military commander and engineer.

He participated in the fights of the Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy during the Polish-Bolshevik War. During the Invasion of Poland of 1939, he served as the commanding officer of Wicher, one of the destroyers of the Polish Navy to take part in the Battle of the Gdańsk Bay.[1] After the war, since 1947, he headed the Historical Detachment of the Naval Staff of Poland.

References

  1. ^ Peszke, Michael Alfred (February 1999). Poland's Navy, 1918-1945. Hippocrene Books. p. 37. ISBN 0-7818-0672-0.