A brigade under the command of Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski, created in Scotland, with the exclusive mission to drop into occupied Poland in order to help liberate the country. The British government, however, pressurised the Poles into allowing the unit to be used in the western theatre of war, which eventually saw it being sent into action in support of the British 1st Airborne Division at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade
{Beneath the Polish coat of arms and beside the emblem of the Polish undergro...
Sergt. Royal Fusiliers. Fought but did not die in WW1. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: James Henry Bradley was born on 18 March 1881 in Peckham. He was the second of the six childr...
Died serving in WW1. Member of the parish of Saint Olave and Saint John Southwark.
Founder of the Royal Air Force. Born Somerset. Aged 20 joined the Second Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and served in India, in the Boer War and in Nigeria. Learnt to fly in 1912 and ser...
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