United States, Recruits for the Polish Army in France, 1917-1919

What is in This Collection?

These are indexes and images of volunteer applications (enlistments) to join the Polish army in France. Many recruits for the Polish Army fighting in France were enlisted during the years 1917- 1919 in several of the United States with large Polish populations. It appears that most of the recruits were not United States citizens though they lived in the United States.Records are from some of the following states Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Also records are from Ontario,Canada. The collection consist of two forms. Form A Intention to volunteer and Form B: Medical Examination Summary.

Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.

Reading These Records

These records are written in Polish. For help reading them see:

• Polish Genealogical Word List
• Reading Polish handwritten records
• Script tutorial for Polish

What Can These Records Tell Me?

The following information may be found in these records:

Form A: Application of Volunteer

Collection Content

Sample Images

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  1918 Recruit