Maj. Luke Dodington, commander of a British unit serving as part of NATO’s Battle Group Poland, will be presented with the Silver Medal of the Polish Army at a ceremony in the eastern Polish city of Białystok before noon, the niezalezna.pl news website reported.
Britain’s defence attaché in Poland, Col. Dominic Morgan, is expected to attend the event, according to Poland’s Territorial Defence Force (WOT).
The ceremony will mark the first time a Polish military decoration will be handed to a British soldier serving in the country as part of NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP), the Polish Territorial Defence Force said on its website.
Four multinational battalion-sized battle groups were deployed to Poland and the Baltic states to bolster NATO’s eastern flank following decisions made at a summit in Warsaw in July 2016.
Earlier this year, soldiers from NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Poland held exercises in northeastern Poland to practice ways of defending a strategic land corridor near Russia’s westernmost region of Kaliningrad.
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Source: niezalezna.pl, terytorialsi.wp.mil.pl