jansos

Hi cwaver

I have a black and white photo of my Dad in the same uniform. He also had one photo professionally coloured like yours, but he always said that the photographer didn't get the colours correct and was dissapointed every time he looked at the photograph. This uniform was my father's army uniform from 1938 when he was doing his army service (national service) as a 19yrs old. At that time he was at NCO officers school in LWOW before war broke out, serving with the 6th Lwow Armoured Battalion. His uniform was a greenish colour from memory of the coloured photo and his collar flashes were dark brown/orange. Unfortunately I can't see what else was on his uniform (badges etc) because the photo has a fancy haze boarder surrounding him. What region of Poland did your Dad come from?

Regards

Hela

Hi Hela and Cwaver,

I have uploaded a similar photo of a Polish Army NCO officers uniform.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/gallery/image/9605-military-school-poland/

Unfortunately, my father's photo has been cut but you can see the design of the uniform. He was also stationed in or around Lwow. I believe he was in the cavalry but then got transferred before they were ordered to attack German tanks! He went on to North Africa (Tobruk, El-Alamein) and Italy (Monte Casino) with the Polish 2nd Battalion in the British 8th Army.

Best wishes, Jansos

Hello,

I have recently found out that my great uncle was part of the Polish 2nd Corps who I have knowledge of him having fought in Monte Cassino and Bolgna before and 2nd corps got sent to the UK after the 2nd Corps got demobolised.

He is in fact still alive, so Ill try to contact him in the near future to see what information he can remember and how his experiance was like and also to check what medals and photos he may have taken or achieved.

This forum looks great by the way.

Thanks.

Dear Sinnorf,

I would be interested to know if your great uncle knew a Dr. in the Polish 2nd Corp by the name of Sosna. My father was at Monte Casino, Tobruk and El-Alemein and the 2nd Corp wasn't that big. Perhaps they knew each other?

Best wishes, Jansos