Leon Billewicz (1870-1940) was a
Polish officer and a
General of the
Polish Army. Initially serving with the
Imperial Russian Army, in November of 1918 he joined the Polish forces. In the
Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1920 he commanded the
Polish 13th Infantry Brigade. In 1919 he was promoted to the rank of
generał brygady. After the
Peace of Riga he remained in active service and, until 1927, served as a commanding officer of the
Brześć Fortified Area. In April of 1927, he retired from active service due to old age. However, after the
Invasion of Poland in 1939 he was arrested by the
NKVD and imprisoned in
Soviet Union. Interned in the
Starobielsk concentration camp, he was murdered in
Kharkov in April of 1940, during the
Katyń massacre.