During fierce fighting around Warsaw’s Evangelical cemeteries, Rylski, despite being seriously wounded, carried his commander, “Gryf” – later General Janusz Brochwicz-Lewiński – to safety under heavy fire.
After the battles in the Wola district, he joined the attempt to break through to the city centre from the besieged Old Town.
His father, Lieutenant Colonel Zygmunt Rylski, who commanded the Home Army’s Praga District, is now the patron of the 181st Light Infantry Battalion of Warsaw’s Territorial Defence Forces.
In a statement shared on social media, the unit described Rylski as one of the last living witnesses to the Uprising – a symbol of courage and soldierly honour.
According to the Don’t Forget About Us Foundation, which supports surviving veterans of the Warsaw Uprising, Rylski was the final living member of the elite Parasol battalion.
Known by the nom de guerre “Brzoza”, he belonged to a scouting unit of the Polish resistance movement Armia Krajowa, composed mainly of members of the Gray Ranks, which distinguished itself in underground operations and took part in the Warsaw Uprising as part of the Radosław Group.
“I joined the Uprising with great enthusiasm and truly believed that what we were doing was right,” he once recalled.
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