Business card for P/O Harry William Bock, Polish Air Force.]]>
301 Squadron]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]>
eng]]>
pol]]>
Text]]>
Text. Service material]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>
1942-05]]>
1942-06]]>
1942-07]]>
1942-08]]>
1942-09]]>
1942-10]]>
1942-11]]>
We got stuck in the sand near Garwolin.
Photo 2 is five people with a caption with their names 'Maciek Miszewski, Jerzy Rajewski, Jan Rabek NN.
Photo 3 is the same group as photo 2 with a caption in Polish 'Poszukiwanie żywności' 'In search of food'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Teresa Boyes]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Civilian]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Poland]]>
Poland--Toruń]]>
Poland--Brześć Kujawski]]>
1939-09]]>
Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
David Bloomfield]]>
Angela Gaffney]]>
pol]]>
eng]]>
Artwork]]>
Text]]>
Civilian]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Photo 2 is a group of civilians in a classroom.
Item 3 is a note explaining the President's visit.
Photo 4 is Mieczysław Stachiewicz having tea and cake at the reception.]]>
Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Claire Monk]]>
pol]]>
eng]]>
Photograph]]>
Civilian]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Liverpool]]>
England--Lancashire]]>
1943]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Nogal, Jozef. Postcards]]>
pol]]>
Text]]>
Ukraine--Lʹviv]]>
Ukraine]]>
Lithuania--Vilnius]]>
Photo 2 is a Wellington landing at night.
Photo 3 is a vertical aerial photograph with two Wellingtons. No detail is visible on the ground due to cloud and anti-aircraft fire.
Photo 4 is a vertical aerial photograph with not detail except anti-aircraft fire. It is captioned 'Nad celem' [over the target].]]>
Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Photo 2 is two groundcrew pushing the port main wheel.
Photo 3 is two groundcrew loading a bomb.
Photo 4 is two groundcrew pushing a bomb trolley.]]>
Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Great Britain]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Text]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Photo 2 is a woman on a bicycle, her left hand on a wall.
Photo 3 is a man and a woman at the entrance to a house.
Photo 4 is the same man and a different woman at the same entrance to a house.
Photo 5 is a head and shoulders portrait of a woman.
Photo 6 is the woman from photo 3 standing in the gardens of a large house which can be seen in the background.
Photo 7 is three men and two women positioned with bicycles outside the large house entrance.]]>
Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Civilian]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Great Britain]]>
Scotland]]>
Photo 2 is a Polish airman standing at the corner of a building.
Photo 3 is two Polish airmen leaning on each other in a garden.
Photo 4 is a woman sitting outside on a chair with two small dogs on her lap.
Photo 5 is an airman sitting on the same chair, asleep.
Photo 6 is the same airmen playing with the two small dogs on the lawn.
]]>
Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Civilian]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Wirral]]>
England--Lancashire]]>
Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Text]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Nuneaton]]>
England--Warwickshire]]>
1942-06-25]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
The person in the photograph captioned ‘Jan Chmiel' was identified as Antony Chmiel by his daughter Anna Hinton.]]>
Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Text]]>
Poland]]>
Poland--Łódź]]>
Poland--Dęblin (Warsaw)]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Lancashire]]>
England--Blackpool]]>
England--Nottinghamshire]]>
England--Hucknall]]>
Scotland--Angus]]>
Scotland--Montrose]]>
England--Warwickshire]]>
England--Rugby]]>
Romania]]>
Lebanon]]>
Lebanon--Beirut]]>
France]]>
France--Lyon]]>
England--Preston (Lancashire)]]>
1939]]>
1940]]>
1941]]>
1942]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Text]]>
1938]]>
1939]]>
1940]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Text]]>
#3 and 4 front and reverse of the Cross of Valour.
#5 and 6 front and reverse of all seven medals
- 1939-1945 Star
- Air Crew Europe Star
- Defence Medal
- War Medal
- Virtuti Miltari Order
- Cross of Valour
- Air Force Active Service Medal]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
pol]]>
Physical object]]>
Physical object. Decoration]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Civilian]]>
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Nottinghamshire]]>
1942-04-15]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
1942-01-28]]>
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
France]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>
France--Saint-Jean-de-Luz]]>
Item 2 is a newspaper cutting of a RWD8, high wing monoplane, with a Polish registration, SP-ANL annotated 'The most popular plane the Polish RWD.8 used for training and recreation.'
Item 3 is a newspaper cutting of four PZL P.11Cs in the air.
Item 4 is a Polish language newspaper cutting with a photo of an unidentified high wing, radial engined monoplane 'City of Warsaw', dated 1934.
Item 5 is a newspaper cutting in colour of a PWS26 in Polish Air Force colours.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Teresa Boyes]]>
pol]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Photograph]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Civilian]]>
Poland]]>
1929]]>
1934]]>
Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Item 1 is a receipt for money paid to the Treasury in Bucharest written in Polish, dated 8 January 1940.
Item 2 is a photo of a queue outside railings with soldiers controlling access.
Item 3 is a photo of a car with two men leaning on it. Behind is a street scene with more cars and people.
Item 4 is a a document from the Polish consulate in Belgrade but written Serbian, dated 9 January 1940.
Item 5 is a second class train ticket. It is written in Romanian and reads
'With passenger Identification'
No:
Wagon:
Bench:
Seat:']]>
Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Teresa Boyes]]>
pol]]>
Text]]>
Photograph]]>
Civilian]]>
Romania]]>
Serbia]]>
Romania--Bucharest]]>
Serbia--Belgrade]]>
1940-01-08]]>
1940-01-09]]>
Photo 2 is Peterborough Cathedral.
Photo 3 is two women and a dog standing at the back of a van.
Photo 4 is a sergeant sitting on a bench, smoking. Behind are other airmen and civilians.
Photo 5 is five airmen standing with a door frame at the entrance to a wooden hut.
Photo 6 is two airmen standing with a door frame at the entrance to a wooden hut.
Photo 7 is six airmen standing with a door frame outside a wooden hut.
Item 8 is a cloth badge.
]]>
Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Physical object. Decoration]]>
Physical object]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Cambridgeshire]]>