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Anuskewicz (Anuszkiewicz), Benjamin T.
Major U.S. Army, enlisted in the U.S. Reserve, Chemical Warfare Service, attached to the 61st Cavalry Division in 1939. He is an army veteran of the Punitive Expedition to Mexico in 1916 and World War I. After the war served on the Victims Commission of the Federation of Inter-Allied War Veterans (F.I.D.A.C.) and also participated in the congresses of the same organization in Paris, Warsaw, Athens, Bucharest and Belgrade as delegate and secretary of the delegation of the American Legion. Served also as Commanding Officer with the Civilian Conservation Corps, in which he distinguished himself by earning the highest peace time decoration awarded by the War Department, the "Soldier's Medal for Valor" for heroic service in the New York State flood in 1935. In 1937 he was decorated by Poland with the Golden Cross "Polonia Restituta" for services rendered to the independence of Poland. Residence: 37 Ridgewood Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943

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