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isthatu2Threads: 13
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 Jan 9, 11, 18:23    #31
delphiandomine:
Sadly, it's all too common that families are left bitter and angry that a family member has chosen to give things to people other than "the person who thought they deserved it".

this could have happened with ours, a Dress sword should have gone to my grand mother as she always polished it and kept it spick and span for her father,but it ended up going to one of his sons as "family" presumed a sword should go to a male.....the Dress sword has now long since disappeared,who knows where it is,at best a collector may have it as a prize possesion....
On the other hand many veterns have no wish to tell their family anything,remember aside from the "fun" stories they occasionally tell these were the grimmest years of their lives,I only discovered my own Grandfathers huge collection of photos and empheria from his time with 2nd TAF in europe once he had end stage dementia,in our family it was a no brainer where all this stuff went,though I did insist that mu uncle(serving RAF officer) got his medels,medels my grandfather never even took out of the boxes and didnt include any you had to send off for.....
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 May 21, 11, 00:00    #32
Witkowski

Witkowski:
My father Jozef G P Witkowski met Gerald Kochan in 1992 in Warsaw. He lived in Trentham N Staffs UK. He had flown with 308 Squadron. I am Wanda one of his 2 daughters, Ana Jozefina is my sister, and we lost Dad on the 16th August after he'd an unsuccessful struggle to recover his health. He was 87. We miss him very much as do his many many friends.
I am sorting through his memorabilia to put together a folder for each grandchild, my son wrote a short biography in 1997.
I know that he sent some of his belongings to your museum......I would just like confirmation so that the grandchildren will know where they can visit to see his things that he wasn't able to copy, like for instance, his uniform.
I really look forward to hearing from someone, hoping that I have furnished you with enough information to make a connection.


Hi Wanda
Did you ever get any answers to your questions? you posted quite a few months ago. Oct 1010

I was just looking at Kochan's webpage for his Centre for Military Studies and noticed your father's name, I don't think this was here last time I looked. There are many photos uploaded here now. I thought I would mention this just in case you're not aware of this:

centerformilitarystudies.org/witkowski.php

Elzunia


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