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Materials from plwiki Kamil Giżycki and from enwiki Ossendowski:

He graduated from Technical University of Munich. During the First World War he served in Austro-Hungarian army and he was injured and captured by Russian soldiers. As a prisoner of war Giżycki was sent in Siberia. After the outbreak of the February Revolution of 1917, Giżycki served in Czechoslovak Legions and in Polish 5th Division (since January 1919) and fought with Bolsheviks. After surrender of the 5th Division (January 1920) Giżycki escaped from Bolsheviks and joined in White Russian guerillas in Uriankhai. In 1920/1921 he moved to north-western Mongolia and he joined the baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg's army as an officer. He also briefly became Ungern von Sternberg's political advisor and chief of special troops, which manufactured land mines, hand grenades and chemical warfare. Giżycki took part in Ungern's last campaign against Red Army near Verkhneudinsk, where baron's army was defeated in August 1921. Giżycki together with part of the 2st Bigade of Ungern's army escaped through northern Gobi to Manchuria. He served as a military instructor in army of Zhang Zuolin and next he was employment as an engineer of the Chinese Eastern Railway. In summer 1922, Giżycki joined in army of White general Anatoly Pepelyayev. In 1923 Kamil Giżycki returned to Poland and settled near Lviv. He was a memmber of the expedition headed by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski to western Africa in 1926. In 1934 Giżycki settled in Liberia where he bought a plantation. Just before Polish Defensive War in 1939 Giżycki returned to Poland and took part in fight against Germany. He was officer of Armia Krajowa. After the war, Giżycki lived at Wrocław and published numerous novels about Africa.