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Craig Williams

Plea to trace Polish WW2 army officer who may have stayed in exile in Glasgow

An appeal has been launched for information about a Polish army officer who may have made Glasgow her home following WW2.

Poland's Institute for National Remembrance has issued the plea for information about the unidentified woman who served in the Polish army during WW2 and was pictured in the UK.

The colour photo was believed to have been taken in either London, Glasgow, Edinburgh or St Andrews.

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The Institute for National Remembrance tweeted: "Please help identity this person in uniform. This picture, found recently in the IPN Archive, represents a young Polish girl, most probably a member of the Women's Auxiliary Service.

"We would like to know whether she stayed in exile, or returned to Poland after WW2."

Initial enquiries seem to have confirmed that the photo was taken in 1944 in Scotland after a black and white image of the army officer in question appears in a photo album entitled 'Members of the Polish Auxiliary Territorial Service, Unit in Scotland, 1944'.

According to MAPA Scotland, Scotland received a large influx of Poles during WW2, with most of the Polish soldiers based in the UK stationed in Scotland during the war - such as those who formed part of the Polish Military Bureau, who were based in Glasgow.

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