Commemorative badge of horse artillery of the Second Polish Republic

The commemorative badge of the horse artillery of the Second Polish Republic [Odznaka pamiątkowa artylerii konnej II RP] was a badge of the horse artillery units of the Polish Army of the Second Polish Republic.

Probably in the first half of 1922, Captain Witold Grabowski, at the initiative of Colonel Leon Dunin-Wolski of the artillery, designed a uniform commemorative badge for all horse artillery divisions. On 20 May 1922, the Minister of Military Affairs approved the badge’s design.

The four-piece badge, measuring 43 × 43 mm, was shaped like a Maltese cross with arms covered in white enamel and bearing gilded dates commemorating the establishment of horse artillery in 1809 and its revival in 1918. At the center of the cross was a silver, oxidized eagle with a gilded crown, holding in its talons gilded crossed cannon barrels with a flaming bomb—the traditional symbol of the artillery of the Army of the Duchy of Warsaw. Beneath the barrels was an enameled horse artillery pennant, black and amaranth (from 1926, black and scarlet). Badges for rank-and-file soldiers were made in two pieces of white metal, without enamel, and with gilded dates.