Polish exile dog tag

[McCulloh]

About @30 years ago I bought a cigar box full of Hinchcliffe war game figures and inside was somebody's buton/badge collection. Aside from the girl guides badges and the Bury St. Edmund's municipal workers' badge there was some polish stuff, including buttons, helmet badge, and a dog tag. Noting some of the Polish experts here, perhaps one of you can help me as to whom it belonged?
It reads:

A.P.
1901
22-111
RZ. KAT
LARKOWSKI
JAN

Ta,
Jeff

[Gary Jucha]

Dog tag

Ok .. I think I can help ..

A.P. - Army Polski
1901 - Year Born
22-111 - Battalion number
RZ. KAT - Roman Catholic
LARKOWSKI - Surname
JAN - Forename

Listed in 3rd Carpathian Divisional register ....

Larkowski Jan, 1901/22 st.wachm. 12.p .ul pod.

.... a Ulan in the 12th Podolski Lancers - the soldiers who raised the Polish Flag on at Monte Cassino !!

For more info .. there's a small piece on the BBC war website at :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3486805.stm

Regards

Gary J.

[McCulloh]

thanks!!

Great information! Thanks.
The badge is a lightweight polish eagle -a smaller version of the Napoleonic shako plates. It's flat on the back. I could figure out what it went on to- helmet maybe?

[Gary Jucha]

post an image ..

Jeff,
Post an image ... of the dogtag and the eagle ... there's plenty of chaps here who like to see "Polish" ....

Regards ... and glad to help !

Gary J.

[Antoni Zawadzki]

... there's plenty of chaps here who like to see "Polish" ....

Hear Hear!

[McCulloh]

dogtag

[McCulloh]

polish badge-aluminum?

badge

[Gary Jucha]

Thanks for posting.

Thanks for posting the items ..
Dogtag looks OK ... although the punch hole is side on ..
..Polish Eagle ... a nice "workshop" example !

Gary J.

[McCulloh]

What do you mean by "workshop"?
Did they make these to wear or ...?

[Gary Jucha]

Manufacture

The Poles were adept at manufacturing badges etc from scrap pieces of metal and the like..
The term workshop piece is loose, .. in the sense that the workshops unit with the unit would hold the basic tooling for mechanical metal working, and thus these tools were normally used to sculpt "workshop pieces" (Normally done in slack period when there was time for an entrepaneur to make these type of items.)

..Worn .... most probably unofficially ... on "walking out" BD's or given as gifts to sweethearts etc ..

Gary J.

[Antoni Zawadzki]

I second Gary, many thanks Jeff for posting that eagle badge. Unique and interesting.

As a sidebar, as most everyone knows, the 'red disc' tag had a counterpart - commonly called a 'green octagon'. Here's my fathers:

Cheers,
Tony