Born: November 17, 1916, Warsaw, Poland
Died: December 4, 1998, Warsaw, Poland
Buried: Warsaw, Poland – Bródnowski cemetery – section 16P, row 5, grave 11
Family: parents – father Aleksander, mother Jadwiga (nee Drobnicka); wife – Anna Halina Jakubowska-Kowalska (also soldier of 1 Polish Armored Division), children – Jerzy, Andrzej, Stanisław, Hanna
Prewar fates:
He completed 7 grades of primary school and 3 grades of a commercial school in Warsaw (1935). Worked as a salesman. He began his military service in 1938 in the 1st company of the 1st battalion of the Radiotelegraph Regiment in Warsaw as a telegraph operator.
Fates during the war:
Together with the Radiotelegraphy Regiment, he went through the September 1939 campaign until his internment in Hungary (Nagykanizsa camp). On May 14, 1940, he was in France in the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade. On June 20, 1940, evacuated to England. In November-December 1940, he completed radio station operation training at the Polish Signal Forces Training Center. Soldier of the 1st Armored Division. He went through the entire combat route of the Division (from August 1944 in Normandy) as a radio operator with the rank of sergeant. Demobilized on August 18, 1945.
Post-war fate:
After the end of the war, he returned to Poland and worked, among others, as a manager at the Capital Area Industry Association in Warsaw. He died in 1998 and was buried at the Bródnowski Cemetery in Warsaw.
author: Witold Gudyś (Polska Grupa Pamięci Historycznej)
author: Witold Gudyś
source: Hanna Kanieska
