Vedral-Sázavský, Jaroslav

Jaroslav Vedral-Sáza­vský (1895−1944) – sol­dier, staff offi­cer and mil­i­tary teacher. Dur­ing the First World War he was tak­en pris­on­er by the Rus­sians on the East­ern Front and fought as a legionary. After the Ger­man occu­pa­tion, he orga­nized an exile army in France and Lon­don and left for the East­ern Front in 1944 at his own request. He was one of two Czechoslo­vak gen­er­als killed in the Bat­tle of the Duk­la Pass when his car hit a Ger­man mine on 6 Octo­ber 1944.