Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), Marshal of France, of Poland and of the United Kingdom, knight of the Order of the White Eagle, the highest Polish distinction, Grand Cross of the Order Virtuti Militari, the highest Polish military distinction, and honorary citizen of Warszawa, was the supreme commander of the Allied forces on the western front at the end of the First World War. In the spring of 1923, he took part in the inauguration of the bust of Napoleon I in the courtyard of the building of the Higher Military School. The black granite plaque bears the following inscription in Polish: "In this building was located, in the years 1923 to 1939, the Higher Military School. In the spring of 1923, FERDINAND FOCH, during a visit to Poland, stayed here and unveiled the statue of Emperor Napoleon I. Outstanding strategist, Supreme Commander of the Allied forces, Marshal of France and of Poland, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Order Virtuti Militari and of the Order of the White Eagle. The present statue of Napoleon is located on the Square of the Insurgents of Warszawa." He remained popular in Poland for having supported, after the Great War, the reconstruction of a unified Poland with a Danzig corridor.
On 24 October 2012, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Business School of the Warszawa University of Technology, a plaque in his memory was unveiled, in the presence of the Ambassador of France to Poland, Mr Pierre Buhler, the defence attaché, Colonel Etienne Champeaux, the president of the Polish section of the Society of Members of the Legion of Honour and of the National Order of Merit, Mr Jean Caillot, the director of the School, Mr Witold Orlowski, the rector of the University, Mr Jan Szmidt, representatives of the British embassy, of the ministry of foreign affairs, and of the Warszawa city hall.
Another plaque in memory of the marshal was unveiled on 19 July 2014 in the town of Toruń (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship), of which he was also an honorary citizen, on the west wall of the courtyard of the former town hall, above the entrance door. It is the replica of an old plaque erected on 3 September 1929, probably destroyed by the Nazis during the Second World War. The plaque, made by Mr Tadeusz Porębski, bears on its upper part the engraving of the marshal's bust in profile between his dates of birth and death, with an inscription in Polish: "To Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of Poland, of France and of England, and to the fighters for the freedom of the people, in the honour of the citizens of the town of Toruń."