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Biography
Antoni Szyling was born on 31 August 1884 in Płoniawy-Bramura near Kraków. He finished a 7-year trade school in 1904 and from an early age was an active member of Polish patriotic and revolutionary organiations, such as Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party. He had several safehouses, in which he stored bibuła and arms, as well as hid wanted PPS members and other organizations. Arrested by the Russian Empire regime, he spent several one and a half months sentences in Warsaw Citadel and Daniłłiczowski Prison. He was also denied the right to study at a university and was was forcibly enlisted in the Russian Army for two years. In the years 1909-1912 he was able to finish 'industrial-agricultral courses' in Higher Agricutural School in Warsaw and from 1912 to 1913 he worked on an experimental folwark in Szamocin. In 1914 he was mobilized to Russian Army again and fought in the First World War. In 1917 in rank of captain he joined the the Polish 2nd Corps in the East.
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