With my mother
18th September 2001
Mother with Mr and Mrs
Nowak and Barbara
18th September 2001
The Dukla Memorial
bronze tablets
containing the names of every
Czech soldier killed
in the battle for
Dukla Pass
The City of Brno in the Czech Republic has an historical encyclopaedia with an article relating to my father. Click here to be taken to that site.
The Memorial in Nowosielce completely renovated with the addition of a brass tablet.
Unveiled on the
5th October 2004
Mother at the
Memorial Tablet
at the Sokol building
in Brno
Czech Republic
These are the Memorials to my father.............
Visit of the President of the Polish Republic Bronislaw Komorowski
2nd November 2010
The Memorial in Arisaig Scotland remembering all Czechoslovak soldiers who trained with the SOE in 1941/1942 and were later killed on operations.
Unveiled on the
11th November 2009
Replaced on the 70th Anniversary
The Memorial wall
plaque on the
side of a building
at one end of
Geisler Street
in Brno Czech Republic
The original
In 2017 a further two memorials were dedicated.
The first in Brno on the 28th May 2017 outside the house where my father lived with his parents before the War and where I lived with my mother and his parents after the War.
The second was the rededication of the Memorial in Pastwiska which was moved from local authority land on one side of the road to our land on the other side -
Brno -
28th May 2017
Pastwiska
11th June 2017
As a postscript................
I am now married to the daughter of the farmer who at the age of thirteen witnessed those terrible events of the 18th September 1944. Barbara is with me and no longer does that foreign field seem so far away..........