Jan Jur-Gorzechowski (born December 21, 1874 in Siedlce - June 21, 1948 in Brookwood) was a brigadier general of the Polish Armed Forces.

His brother was Lieutenant Henryk Gorzechowski (1892–1940, victim of the Katyn massacre, author of the painting of Our Lady of Kozielsk).

The action was carried out by a six-person combat unit of the OB PPS, under the command of Gorzechowski – "Jura" disguised in the uniforms of the Tsarist gendarmerie (under the pretext of escorting prisoners)[2] (other participants included Edward Dąbrowski "Łysy",[3] Franciszek Łagowski, Antoni Kola[4]).

The Commander of the Polish Legions Group, Colonel Wiktor Grzesicki, punished him with a fourteen-day peace arrest for exceeding the competence of an intelligence officer and illegal recruitment.

[5] The Austrian authorities demanded that he be removed from the Legions, so at the end of April 1916 he moved to Warsaw and became a member of the Supreme Command of the Polish Military Organization.

[6] In January 1919, during the unsuccessful coup attempt carried out by the National Democrats, he was seriously wounded, which further increased his merits in Józef Piłsudski's eyes.

Then he made his way to the Middle East, where from December 1940 to April 1943 he was in the Reserve Centre of the Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade in Mandatory Palestine.