Richard’s Earthly Journeys Have Ended
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Re-connection Part 2
November 2017 – May 2018 At the Conservative Party Conference in 2016, the then British Prime Minister uttered a most infamous statement that ‘a citizen...
Active Service 1940-1945
In 2012, I requested my father’s war record from his arrival in Britain in 1940. Usually he would only recount anecdotal stories of his war...
‘The Hero of Westerplatte’
My father often spoke of Uncle Heniek when I was growing up. Like my grandfather, Uncle Heniek, full name Henryk Sucharski, held the rank of...
Veteran of Three Wars
My grandfather, Edward Pach, Austrian born in Vienna, had seen action in three major wars before the age of 50. The Battle of Kock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kock_(1939)...
1939 War and Exile Part 2
Note: During WW2 Hungary was on the side of the Axis Powers led by Germany. At the time of my father’s arrival there, Hungary was...
1939 War and Exile Part 1
One of my cousins once asked my father how he arrived in Scotland in 1939. He replied with the following letter. ‘Dear Elizabeth I shall...