United States, Recruits for the Polish Army in France - FamilySearch Historical Records

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What is in This Collection?
These are indexes and images of volunteer applications to join the Polish army in France. Many recruits for the Polish Army fighting in France were enlisted during the years1917- 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

Reading These Records
These records are written in Polish. For help reading these records see the following:
 * Polish Genealogical Word List
 * Reading Polish handwritten records
 * Script tutorial for Polish

What Can These Records Tell Me?

 * Name of recruit
 * Age
 * Marital status
 * Address
 * Date of enlistments

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