Interwar period, Upper Silesia,Poland. Please help to date photographs.

[Adam81]

Hello there.
Can you please help me to date these photographs below? They must've be taken in the interwar period but some more precise dating would be helpful. These photographs are smaller than C6 envelope.The last one is even 50% smaller. Many thanks!

[DrDude45]

The caps the gentlemen wear in the first picture look very similar to the Volunteers of the Polish Military Organization, Upper Silesia 1919-1921. But it's really hard to tell as I can only find drawn examples of the standard uniform.

My two cents so far.

[Adam81]

The caps the gentlemen wear in the first picture look very similar to the Volunteers of the Polish Military Organization, Upper Silesia 1919-1921. But it's really hard to tell as I can only find drawn examples of the standard uniform.

My two cents so far.

Thank you sir! You are so right! My great great grandfather (second from right) was a member of Polish Military Organization and a Silesian insurgent.
You are a very first person ever to recognize this cap. Can you please share the source of these examples?
Below is slightly better photo of this cap

[DrDude45]

As a study of the world wars, it did trigger a few memories. Based on your info I did some looking to confirm what I thought it was. I kept one of the pages open, so here's a link to a photo from a Pintrest page that seems to have scanned pages from a military uniform history compendium or some such thing.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c4/af/a8/c4afa89533bf39ca38a62483e6183acc--ww-uniforms-military-uniforms.jpg

and the actual page:

https://www.pinterest.se/0ljbetg0912nq47/rusos/


Also, I hope you will enjoy a restoration of the second image you posted.

[goldie61]

Wow! Great job on the restoration of the gentleman DrDude. 

(I was looking at this - I have, untraceable, Polish people to find................)

[Ruskie]

Looking at the women's fashions, a guess at the date - possibly 20s/30s?

Someone will probably be able to narrow that down further.

[DrDude45]

Wow! Great job on the restoration of the gentleman DrDude. 

(I was looking at this - I have, untraceable, Polish people to find................)

Glad you're happy. Here's the first pic with all the soldiers. Hope you like it.

[Adam81]

DrDude - mamy thanks. Good job with the restoration.

Wow! Great job on the restoration of the gentleman DrDude. 

(I was looking at this - I have, untraceable, Polish people to find................)

Who are you looking for in Poland? Perhaps I could help.

[DrDude45]

Wow! Great job on the restoration of the gentleman DrDude. 

(I was looking at this - I have, untraceable, Polish people to find................)

I was thinking about this and it could be very difficult as the Germans displaced a lot of the Polish people from the area during WW2. Combined with the fact they were soldiers, it could be that they might have been killed in the attack. Even at an advanced age, a proud partisan soldier would have taken up arms to defend, even against an overwhelming force.

As such you might look through KIA records, POW records and even records of the Auschwitz I camp in Upper Silesia. That signature may help a bit as well.

My two cents.