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.
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1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade
{Beneath the Polish coat of arms and beside the emblem of the Polish undergro...
Thousands of service men and women trained at the Walthamstow college: 1940 RAF; 1941 army; 1942 navy.
Born near Sunderland. Joined the army against his father's wishes. Served in India and the First Afghan War. Recaptured Cawnpore in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Died in the recently relieved Luckn...
Edward James Brierley was born 5 August 1888 in Marylebone, Middlesex (now Greater London), the eldest of the six children of Edward Brierley (1864-1944) and Emma Brierley née Clayton (1867-1945), ...
This war, the first UN action against aggression, has not officially ended but a ceasefire has held since 1953.
