- from: https://www.wiclarkcountyhistory.org/4data/92/92465.htm
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Researcher's Notes
During WW I there is a Walenty Langiewicz, from Thorp, Wisconsin (Pg 199 Vol. 1) listed as a member of the Polish Army in France, called "Haller's Army-from the Polish Genealogical Society of America comes the following statement "An estimated 20,000 Polish persons answered the call to fight for freedom and the opportunity to regain Poland's independence during World War I in the Polish Army in France (in Polish Armia Polska we Francyi). They were recruited from among the Polish immigrants who came to America to fight with France."
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