Szyndler
29 May 2008
Genealogy / Does anyone have any relatives who served with 1st Polish Armoured Division (Gen. Maczek) [310]
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.
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.
