Wacław Piekarski

During the Invasion of Poland and the opening stages of World War II he was the commanding officer of Polish 41st Infantry Division.

After the war he remained in exile and served as the head of the house for the elderly of the Polish Humanitarian Fund in Lailly-en-Val.

Following this brief staff practice, the following year he became the commanding officer of the 54th 'Kresy Rifles' Infantry Regiment in Tarnopol (modern Ternopil, Ukraine).

Promoted to full colonel on 1 January 1928, in 1931 he joined the Border Defence Corps and became the commanding officer of its 4th Brigade based in Czortków (modern Chortkiv, Ukraine).

After two years serving in that capacity, in October 1938 he was recalled back to Warsaw and became the chief of Department of Infantry in the Ministry of Military Affairs.