Genealogy / Does anyone have any relatives who served with 1st Polish Armoured Division (Gen. Maczek) [311]

I hope one of you can help me? My father was a 1st. Lieutenant with the 24th Lancers his name was Jerzy Szyndler. If you have any photos or documentation from the time the unit was stationed in Scotland or during any of their travels in to Eurpoe I would welcome them. I have plenty of photos from when they were in Scotland along with pictures of the unit meeting Montgomery and would be happy to share them. I have pictures of my father with several other men gogin through the wreckage of a Heinkel that was shot down...looks like they were playing the role of MP's. My father passed away a year and a half ago and he is missed so very much, Ait feels like a huge volume of history was lost when he passed as his stories of his families escape from Poland and how they finally got to England are the kind of tales you would only expect to see in a movie. I am sure they are typical of the time but some are just so amazing they made the hair on the back of my kneck stand on end!

Genealogy / Does anyone have any relatives who served with 1st Polish Armoured Division (Gen. Maczek) [311]

I will post a life tale once I have gathered as much info. as I can and have checked some facts. I will post a link as the site I will be putting this up on is mostly stories of Polish people during WWII and the struggles they faced.

Genealogy / Does anyone have any relatives who served with 1st Polish Armoured Division (Gen. Maczek) [311]

Here is a picture I found on the net of the 1st Armoured.....It looks to be mostly officers. I have looked but can not see my father in this picture as it gets grainy when you zoom in! (Sorry about that one 50KB looks like hell at that size) This is my father after the war in Scotland....he stayed in the army until '47 from the records I have found. My grandfather was also a military man up until they fled from Poland....he was a chemical engineer and operated an ammunitions factory just outside Warsaw-Rembertow 3. He was a famous Colonel in Poland from things I have read about him. From what my father told me he recalls them bobbytrapping the ammunition factory before they left. The Gestapo came looking for my grand father once the Germans were finally able to get into Warsaw. My father always told me the funny stories from the war and very rarely did he dwell on the destruction he saw (Falaises - Chambois in particular). According to what his family were told the Gestapo came to their house, the only person there was the house keeper....by my fathers description she was a very intimidating Ukranian lady that took crap from nobody. The Gestapo tryed to muscle there way in and she sent them packing!!

I would like to share more pictures right now but find it hard to post them as I only recently lost my father and find it hard to look at pictures of him without feeling the loss of both the person and the history! I will try to post some more tomorrow.

polandinexile.com............... great site for information on the Polish in Exile during WWII....some great stories on individuals.

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