My father (came to Australia, Dec 1950) had to sign a contract to work for
2 years where ever he was sent. He ended up with the PMG (Postmaster General
Dept) doing pick and shovel work building manholes for telephones etc. Others
worked for the Railways or the State Electricity Commission. A lot of people
remained working in those jobs till they retired.
Frania
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Hi Gary
I understand that the Polish veterans who came to
Australia also had to sign up for a couple of years of work (I believe
agricultural labour, but possibly also Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme) as a
condition of immigration. ?Of course, the Polish Resettlement Corps in
UK, which absorbed a large number of soldiers (including my father) after the
2 Corps was disbanded, was a non-combatant but military-organised unit also
given these kinds of tasks (road building etc.) in order to integrate them
into life in the UK after the war. ?Perhaps this was associated with the
"Service Territorial?"
Stefan
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 03:16:09
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To: kresy-siberia@...
Subject:
[Kresy-Siberia] First message
In part 18 and 19 it states that he was
demobilized from the Polish Forces abroad on Nov. 13 1946 and transfered to
Service Territorial. I'm getting a little ahead of myself, the questions I
was asking, what are the medals that are listed and what was "Service
Territorial"?
???Looking back
and trying to imagin what my father went through by being deported to
Siberia and fighting with the British, one would think that coming to Canada
would be his first real taste of living in a free country, I thought so,
until I ran across a wallet size docuement with my dads name on it ,
?it reads "Department of Labour Canada. This is to certify that Polish
Veteran Leon Bancarz has discharged the undertaking made with the Government
of Canada to remain in specified employment for a fixed period of time upon
admission to Canada. Dated Aug.22/49. Its signed by the minister of Labour
and the Deputy Minister, I remember that my dad told me one time that he had
to work on a farm in Quebec for two years in order to stay in Canada, my
mother had to work on a farm also she also had no choice, but in her case
she was deported to Germany, from Poland. So if anyone out there can help
me? Thank you.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????God
Bless, Gary.
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