General Charles DeGaulle
Military Advisor to Haller's Army
From 1920-1921
Period picture shows his WW1 rank of Captain.
"The post-World War French Army had plenty of officers to spare, and France sent an enormous number of officer-instructors to Poland... One of the French officers was a Captain named Charles de Gaulle, who had come to Poland with Haller's Army. He had served in East Galicia and had then become an instructor at the Polish training camp at Rembertow, about six miles from Warsaw. In the summer of 1920 he went into the field with a Polish division. In 1921 he was offered, but declined, a commission as a major in the Polish Army."
(Excerpted from "Bitter Glory" by Richard M. Watt.)
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From "White Eagle, Red Star"
by Norman Davies
