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Stanislaw was born in 1917. At the outbreak of war as Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Stanislaw was badly injured. He was shot in the side of the head, his ear was badly damaged and at one point, gangrenous; what was left of his ear was sewn together. He was taken to a hospital in Warsaw but because of his injuries they weren’t too keen to take him and he was transported to Prussia where the skill of the doctors saved his life.

In February 1940 he was transported to Russia along with the rest of his family. In 1941 when Germany invaded Russia and Russia joined the Allies, Polish soldiers who had been interned in Siberia and Kazakhstan were then released by the Russians and mobilised to fight and return to Poland.

The re-mobilised army went on to Iran (Persia) to train with the British Army and Allies.
He remembers how in April 1942 they sat all day without food until midnight before something was organised. Then it was a whole week before accommodation and facilities were organised for the soldiers and families.

From Iran he went on to Palestine in April 1942 and then on to Tobruk. He fought at Monte Cassino on 10th —12th May. There was a big barrage of artillery, the storming of a monastery by the Polish Brigade and with an already damaged ear he is now severely deaf with a constant ringing in his ears.

At the end of the fighting some of the men returned to Poland and the rest of the 2nd Corps came to England. “I ended up in Brendtree Camp and after being discharged from the Army found agricultural work near Letchworth, then on to Marsworth Camp near Tring and then to Dunstable”.

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