{"id":769,"date":"2023-12-27T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maczek.wirtualnemuzeum.org\/biogram\/pawel-paul-koczula\/"},"modified":"2023-12-29T07:48:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T06:48:48","slug":"pawel-paul-koczula","status":"publish","type":"biogram","link":"https:\/\/maczek.wirtualnemuzeum.org\/en\/bios\/pawel-paul-koczula\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawe\u0142 (Paul) Koczula"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Born:<\/strong> February 27th, 1919, Nak\u0142o \u015al\u0105skie (Silesia, Poland)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Died: <\/strong>March 13, 2011, <\/strong>Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burial: <\/strong>St. Catherines, Ontario Canada <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fates before joining 1st<\/sup> Polish Armored Division:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul (Pawe\u0142) during the Second World War escaped from Poland and made his way to France, arriving by ship from Yugoslavia. There, he joined the French forces and was stationed in Lyon, France. One particularly interesting detail is that he was a member of the Norway Merchant Navy during the 1940s. In recognition of his contributions to Norway, he was awarded the Norwegian War Medal in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Military service in 1st<\/sup> Armored Division:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, he found himself in England, where he became a part of the Polish 1st Armored Division and served in the 1st Podhale Rifles Battalion (1 Batalion Strzelc\u00f3w Podhala\u0144skich) under this Division. He participated in battles in the Netherlands, Normandy, Belgium, and other locations as part of the Northern Campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After War:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Canada, he was the past president of the Royal Canadian Legion Polish Branch 418 and he, like many Polish veterans, was active in preserving the memories of many soldiers that were part of the World Wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

author : Robert Stanczyk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

source : archives of Orli\u0144ski Museum, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soldiers on a steam ship, Norway 1940; source: Pawel Koczula Collection, Orlinski Museum, Ontario, Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paul Koczula (centre) as part of French Army, France, 1940; source: Pawel Koczula Collection, Orlinski Museum, Ontario, Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paul Koczula (left) as part of the 1AD Breda, Holland, 1944; source: Pawel Koczula Collection, Orlinski Museum, Ontario, Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paul Koczula (very end centre middle row) as part of French Army, France, 1940;  source: Pawel Koczula Collection, Orlinski Museum, Ontario, Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paul Koczula in 1 AD uniform, Great Britain, 1945; source: Pawel Koczula Collection, Orlinski Museum, Ontario, Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":768,"template":"","kraj":[46],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maczek.wirtualnemuzeum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biogram\/769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maczek.wirtualnemuzeum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biogram"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maczek.wirtualnemuzeum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biogram"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maczek.wirtualnemuzeum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maczek.wirtualnemuzeum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kraj","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maczek.wirtualnemuzeum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kraj?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}