Andrzej Kowerski

Andrzej Kowerski

Andrzej Kowerski (IPA| [,andʐɛj kɔvɛrski] 1912-1988) was a Polish Army officer and SOE agent in World War II.

During the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Lieutenant Kowerski fought gallantly as a member of Poland's 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade, winning his country's highest military decoration, the "Virtuti Militari".

When Soviet forces invaded eastern Poland on September 17, forcing Poland's government to evacuate south into Romania, Kowerski and his "Black Brigade" (so called after their black leather jackets) evacuated to neighboring Hungary. There he busied himself covertly exfiltrating interned Polish, and other Allied, military personnel out of Hungary.

When Kowerski subsequently worked for British Intelligence and the Special Operations Executive, he was given the cover name Andrew Kennedy. Having lost part of a leg in a prewar hunting accident, he became the first disabled man to complete SOE's parachute training. (His lover, Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, was the first woman to pass the same course.)

References

* Madeleine Masson, "Christine: a Search for Christine Granville, G.M., O.B.E., Croix de Guerre...", London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975 (republished by Virago, 2005).

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