Dec 12, 2005

He Fought for the Emperor Franz Josef

by Liberty and Power

Last Tuesday, December 6, Colonel Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, soldier, gardener and musician died aged 111 in Allithwaite, Cumbria, England. He was Britain’s oldest man. Go here to read about his amazing life. Born in Lwow, Austria-Hungary, on July 19, 1894, he saw action in both world wars, in the first with the Austrian army against the Italians and in the second with the Polish army fighting a rearguard action against the Germans and Russians. He also saw action against the Red Army in 1920.

His obituary goes behind subscription at 7 pm (EST) this Wednesday.

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Roderick T. Long - 12/12/2005

Interestingly, this same town of Lwow (also known as Lvov, Lviv, and Lemberg -- and variously located in Austria-Hungary, Poland, and Ukraine as borders shifted around it) was the hometown of what seems a disproportionate number of famous people, including economist Ludwig von Mises, philosopher Alexius Meinong, logician Jan Lukasiewicz, actor Paul Muni, science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, and Leopold Sacher-Masoch after whom masochism is named.