Edward Dojan-Surówka

Jan Edward Dojan-Surowka (27 December 1894 in Wielopole Skrzynskie – 6 November 1982) was a soldier of the Polish Legions in World War I and Colonel of Infantry in the Polish Army in the interwar period.

In 1917, after the Oath crisis, he was forced to join the Austro-Hungarian Army and fight on the Eastern Front.

On 22 July 1922 Edward Dojan-Surowka was transferred to the 45th Kresy Rifles Regiment in Rowne, and on 21 August 1926 he was named commandant of the 21st Children of Warsaw Infantry Regiment, stationed in Warsaw.

During the Invasion of Poland, in the night of 8–9 September 1939, Edward Dojan-Surowka suffered a nervous breakdown after a raid carried out by a German unit.

Together with other officers (Colonel Mieczyslaw Peczkowski and Major Stefan Prokop), he abandoned his soldiers and drove to Warsaw, leaving the division under command of his deputy, Colonel Antoni Staich.