List of Polish divisions in World War I

The following is a list of Polish brigade and division-sized military units during World War I and the subsequent Russian Civil War. See also list of military divisions. Official names are given in parentheses.

Key
Formed in Russia during World War I Green
Formed in France during World War I (the Blue Army of Gen. Haller) Blue
Formed in Russia during Russian Civil War Red
Formed in Austria-Hungary during World War I Yellow
Formed in Germany during World War I Grey
  Polish 1st Rifle Division (1 Dywizja Strzelców Polskich / 1re Division Polonaise) Later 13th Infantry Division (Poland)
  Polish 2nd Rifle Division (2 Dywizja Strzelców Polskich / 2éme Division Polonaise)
  Polish 3rd Rifle Division (3 Dywizja Strzelców Polskich / 3éme Division Polonaise)
  Polish 4th Polish Rifle Division (4. Dywizja Strzelców Polskich)Later part of Haller's Blue army as 4th Division-renamed 10th Infantry Division (Poland)
Col. Franciszek Zieliński
  Polish 5th Polish Rifle Division (5. Dywizja Strzelców Polskich)Later part of Haller's Blue army as 5th Division-renamed Polish 30th Infantry Division
generals Piotr Szymanowski, Adam Sławoczyński, Tadeusz Bylewski
  6th Polish Rifle Division (6 Dywizja Strzelców Polskich / 3éme Division Polonaise)
  7th Polish Rifle Division (7 Dywizja Strzelców Polskich / 7éme Division Polonaise)
  Polish Instructive Division (Dywizja Instrukcyjna)
  Polish Legion in Finland only existed from 1917 to 1918
  Polish I Corps in Russia (I Korpus Polski w Rosji)
Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki
  Polish II Corps in Russia Polish 4th Rifle Division (4 Dywizja Strzelców Polskich) Later formed 10th Infantry Division(10. Dywizja Piechoty)
general Lucjan Żeligowski
  Polish II Corps in Russia Polish 5th Rifle Division (5 Dywizja Strzelców Polskich) Later formed into 2 regiments of Polish army of which one was 82nd Siberian Infantry Regiment (Polish: 82 Syberyjski pułk piechoty)
colonel Walerian Czuma
  Polish III Corps in Russia Formed in the Ukraine
  Polish Light Brigade (Brygada Lekka)
Juliusz Rómmel
  1st Lithuanian–Belarusian Division (1. Dywizja Litewsko-Białoruska, Belarusian: 1-ая Літоўска-Беларуская дывізія)
Later 19th Infantry Division (Poland)
  2nd Lithuanian–Belarusian Division (2. Dywizja Litewsko-Białoruska, Belarusian: 2-ая Літоўска-Беларуская дывізія)
Later 20th Infantry Division (Poland)
  1st Brigade of the Polish Legions (1 Brygada Legionów Polskich)
Józef Piłsudski
  2nd Brigade of the Polish Legions (2 Brygada Legionów Polskich)
Józef Haller de Hallenburg
  3rd Brigade of the Polish Legions (3 Brygada Legionów Polskich)
Bolesław Roja
  4th Infantry Division (Poland) (4 Dywizji Piechoty)
Later 26th Infantry Division (Poland)
  Polish Auxiliary Corps (Polski Korpus Posiłkowy)
general Zygmunt Zieliński
  Polnische Wehrmacht (Polska Siła Zbrojna)
Felix von Barth

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