Józef Piłsudski has been awarded numerous honours, domestic and foreign.
Polish National honours edit
National honours edit
Order of the White Eagle (1921)- Order of Virtuti Militari
Knight's Cross
Commander's Cross
Grand Cross
Cross of Independence with Swords (6 November 1930)- Order of Polonia Restituta
Commander's Cross with Star
Grand Cordon
Military honours edit
Cross of Valour (four times)
Gold Cross of Merit (four times, including in 1931)
Cross of Merit of the Central Lithuania Army
Cross of Silesian Merit and Valor
Officers' Badge "Parasol" (1912)
Officers' Badge "For Faithful Service" (1916)
Cross Kaniowski (1929)[1]
Other honours edit
Scouting Cross (1920)- "Gold trade union" Chief Fire Brigades Union [78]
- Badge "Józef Piłsudski Polish Legion Commander" (1916) [80]
- Commemorative Badge of former prisoners from the years 1914–1921 Ideological (1928) [81]
Foreign honours edit
Austria-Hungary:
Order of the Iron Crown Class III (Austria-Hungary)
Belgium
Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold
Bulgaria
Order of Saint Alexander with Swords
Brazil
Grand Collar of the Order of the Southern Cross Class
Czechoslovakia
Estonia
Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class I (Estonia, 1930)- Cross of Liberty
Grade I
Grade III
Finland
France
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, No. 25864 (continuous numbering) and the Médaille militaire
Spain
Grand Cross – Yellow Decoration of the Order of Military Merit
Japan
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Latvia
Order of Lāčplēsis, Class I
SMOM
Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Class IV
Portugal
Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword
Kingdom of Romania
Collar of the Order of Carol I
Order of Michael the Brave, Classes I, II and III (Romania)
Hungary
Kingdom of Italy
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of Savoy
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Honorary doctorates edit
- Jagiellonian University (28 April 1920) [102]
- Adam Mickiewicz University (11 November 1933)
- University of Warsaw (2 May 1921) [103]
- Stefan Batory University in Vilnius (September 1921)
References edit
- ^ "Pilsudski v. Daszynski". Time. 11 November 1929. Archived from the original on 15 August 2009.
- ^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 368.
- ^ Piłsudski, Józef (1989). Urbankowski, Bohdan (ed.). Myśli, mowy i rozkazy (in Polish). Warsaw: Kwadryga. p. 281. ISBN 978-83-85082-01-9.