Marian Turkowski

Turkowski was born on 28 July 1894 in the village of Iwkowa, which at that time belonged to Austrian Galicia.

He attended a high school in nearby Bochnia, after which studied law at Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

In 1938, Turkowski oversaw the destruction of Orthodox churches and prayer houses in the area east of Lublin .

In the Polish September Campaign, his division belonged to Operational Group of General Stanisław Skwarczyński, part of Prusy Army.

On 30 September 1948 Turkowski was released from active service, due to health problems.