Andrzej Marecki

Participated in the Polish–Soviet War of 1918–1921.

1924–1926 he studied in the Wyższa Szkoła Wojenna (Polish Military Academy).

After graduating, from 1928 he was a lecturer in tactics at his alma mater.

1934–1936 he served with the 27th Regiment of Light Artillery.

February 1936 military attaché at the Polish diplomatic mission in Stockholm.

February 1939 he was attached to the Polish General Staff. Following Polish defeat after the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, he made his way through Romania to France, where he joined the recreated Polish Army in France. He taught a Polish course at the École Supérieure de Guerre, and later became a Polish liaison officer at the French General Staff.

May 1940 he was attached once again to the Polish General Staff. He was also the first commandant of the Wyzsza Szkoła Wojenna, temporarily recreated in the United Kingdom during wartime, and he was involved with the re-establishing of Polish military journal Bellona in the United Kingdom during that time frame.

4 July 1943 RAF Consolidated B-24 Liberator AL523 511 Sqn. Crashed into the sea 16 seconds after taking off from Gibraltar Airport at 23:07 hours returning to London from an inspection of Polish forces deployed in the Middle East.
He was buried in 28 July 1943 at the cemetery in Newark-upon-Trent.

In December 2010, as part of the investigation of the Institute of National Remembrance, officers killed in the Gibraltar crash were exhumed for examination at the Department of Forensic Medicine of the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Krakow.

On December 9, 2010, Andrzej Marecki and Tadeusz Klimecki were buried in the Powazki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.