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MEDALFRAMING BY EG FRAMES |  |
| A PAIR OF FRAMES DEPICTING TWO WORLD WAR II POLISH SOLDIERS. THESE
COLLECTIONS WERE COLLECTED AND COMPILED BY THE SON AND NEPHEW OF THE TWO
SOLDIERS. BOTH COLLECTIONS CONTAINS MILITARIA, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND COMMERATIVE
MEDALS FROM GREAT BRITIAN AND POLAND. BOTH MEN WERE ARRESTED IN 1940 AND ILLEGALLY DEPORTED FROM POLAND TO SIBERIAN WORK CAMPS, BY THE SOVIET NKVD. WHEN GERMANY ATTACKED THE SOVIET UNION THEY WERE RELEASED. AS YOUNG MEN THEY INDIVIDUALLY MADE THEIR OWN WAY SOUTH TO JOIN THE FREE POLISH FORCES UNDER LT GEN ANDERS. BOTH BECAME PART OF THE 2ND POLISH CORPS. BOTH MEN SETTLED IN THE UK AFTER THE WAR, AS THEIR ORIGINAL HOME HAD BECOME PART OF THE COMMUNIST SOVIET UNION. |
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| KAZIMIERZ
ENLISTED IN THE POLISH 5TH KRESOWA DIVISION BEFORE TRANSFERRING TO THE 1ST
INDEPENDENT POLISH PARACHUTE BRIGADE, WHO TOGETHER WITH THE 1ST BRITISH
AIRBORNE DIVISION TOOK PART IN THE BATTLE OF ARNHEM. AT THE END OF THE WAR HE SERVED IN GERMANY ON OCCUPATIONAL DUTIES WITH THE 1ST POLISH ARMOURED DIVISION. |
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| MIECZYSLAW JOINED THE POLISH 3RD CARPATHIAN DIVISION AND SERVED IN IRAN/IRAQ/PALESTINE/EGYPT. THEN AS PART OF THE BRITISH 8TH ARMY HE TOOK PART IN THE BATTLES OF MONTE CASSINO, ANCONA AND FINALLY BOLOGNA IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN. |
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