This summary has been prepared by Jolanta Wilson, lead researcher on the Polish Naval Camp in Okehampton, with additional research support from Peter Szypko and Antoni Olszowski. To view larger images, please click on the thumbnails. INTRODUCTION The Polish community...
This summary has been written by Stanislaw’s son and volunteer researcher, Antoni ‘Tony’ Olszowski. Stanislaw Olszowski (Staszek) was born on 25th April 1920 in Sosnica, a small town between Zabrze and Gliwice in Upper Silesia. At that time, at the...
Click Tadeusz’s (Tadek’s) image below to read about his life: You can watch an extract of an interview with Tadek by Gdansk TV at Swieto Morza in 1993 below: ...
Antoni Zielonka’s military records state that he was born on 12 June 1918 in Sniatycze, a village in south-eastern Poland in the Lublin district close to the Ukrainian border. He was actually born in Moscow but his family moved to Sniatycze soon after his birth....
The following summary has been written by volunteer researcher, Peter Szypko. Kazimierz Szypillo was born in the small village of Bobrowszczyzna near Glebokie in eastern Poland on 14 March 1923. His village and Aleksander Szypko’s were ten miles apart. Although...
The following summary has been written by Aleksander’s son and volunteer researcher, Peter Szypko. Aleksander Szypko was born on 24 October 1918 in the village of Maciasy, near Glebokie in eastern Poland (now part of Belarus). Although their ethnicity was...
The following summary has been written by volunteer researcher, Peter Szypko. Peter Skrzypczak was born on 9 May 1921 in the village of Strycow in the Poznań province of Poland. His family moved to France in 1923. Although they had intended to return to Poland,...
Okehampton Community Heritage Coordinator Laurel Miller reports on a fascinating book launch… Okehampton volunteers greatly enjoyed hearing readings from the memoir of local author Karen Eugenia Boreham at her book launch this week. Karen has lived on a Dartmoor...
Community Heritage Coordinator Laurel writes about new research discoveries… I am writing this blog on 11th November, Remembrance Day. A time to remember the service and sacrifice of the men and women who fought in conflicts across the years. 100 years since that...
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