Jaroslav Rošický

Jaroslav Rošický (18 September 1884, Třešť – 26 June 1942, Prague) was Czech army officer.^[1]

As a soldier he participated in the World War I, fighting in Austrian army in Russia and Italy. He got injured in 1917 and returned back to Brno and later moved to Prague. There he met people from the Czech National Committee, the body who led the Czech and Czechoslovak independence movement. Rošický with Sokol leader Josef Scheiner were in charge of the respective military operations.^[1]

During World War II, Rošický was a member of the captain Nemo anti-Nazi resistance group. In 1942 he was arrested and executed along with his son, communist journalist and athlete Evžen Rošický.^[1]

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Elektronická encyklopedie historie : Jaroslav Rošický". Valka.cz. Retrieved 2015-04-08.