The article describes the figure of Colonel Michael Zdzichowski (1884-1962). From 1905 he served in the Russian army, and took part in the fighting on the Russian-German front during World War I. In 1918 he returned to Poland, where – as a volunteer – he joined the Polish Army. Initially, he was assigned to the 1st Marine Battalion, and in 1920 to the Central Camp of NCOs for Artillery Schools in Toruń – in the summer of the same year he took part of 1920 in the Polish-Russian war in northern Mazovia. Then he worked for five years at the artillery school in Toruń. He was very well assessed by his superiors as an outstanding artillery officer. In 1926 he was transferred to the 8th Heavy Artillery Regiment, where he took the position of depu...