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Dear group,

Please welcome Christine (Chris) Rhodes from Co Durham, UK, to the group.?

Christine was introduced to us via Chris Wroblewski -?her father Bo?eslaw Wo?niakowski and Chris's uncle Micha??Krzywoszanski were in the same Polish tank regiment in Italy during WW2,?postwar in 1947 both were posted to Brancepeth, Co Durham with the Durham?Light Infantry when the British Army was recruiting Poles from the PRC. Chris's?father suffered the fate of many captured Polish soldiers in 1939 being?deported to a Soviet labour camp and later joining Anders Army after the?amnesty.?

Chris writes "My father was Boleslaw Wo?niakowski born in Izabelin ?near Warsawa in 1916 and would have been 100 last month had he lived.? I have his records from RAF Northolt here in the UK and have had some records from the Central Archives in Warsawa some of which are in Russian.? These have been translated for me but are limited in the information they give me.? I know he fought at Monte Cassino and was captured by the NKVD at Tranopol and then sent to Eastern Siberia. He fought in the 1939 and join the Armoured Train in Legionowo where he was living at the time.? Later he was released to General Anders."

Chris is joining our group to be able to better understand what happened to the Polish soldiers, especially those that were held by the NKVD in Russia.?

Warm regards

Anna Pacewicz

Sydney

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Dear group,

Please welcome Christine (Chris) Rhodes from Co Durham, UK, to the group.?

Christine was introduced to us via Chris Wroblewski -?her father Bo?eslaw Wo?niakowski and Chris's uncle Micha??Krzywoszanski were in the same Polish tank regiment in Italy during WW2,?postwar in 1947 both were posted to Brancepeth, Co Durham with the Durham?Light Infantry when the British Army was recruiting Poles from the PRC. Chris's?father suffered the fate of many captured Polish soldiers in 1939 being?deported to a Soviet labour camp and later joining Anders Army after the?amnesty.?

Chris writes "My father was Boleslaw Wo?niakowski born in Izabelin ?near Warsawa in 1916 and would have been 100 last month had he lived.? I have his records from RAF Northolt here in the UK and have had some records from the Central Archives in Warsawa some of which are in Russian.? These have been translated for me but are limited in the information they give me.? I know he fought at Monte Cassino and was captured by the NKVD at Tranopol and then sent to Eastern Siberia. He fought in the 1939 and join the Armoured Train in Legionowo where he was living at the time.? Later he was released to General Anders."

Chris is joining our group to be able to better understand what happened to the Polish soldiers, especially those that were held by the NKVD in Russia.?

Warm regards

Anna Pacewicz

Sydney