REPATRIATION OF TROOPS OF THE 2ND POLISH CORPS FROM ITALY TO POLAND, 1945-1946 - Colonel Kazimierz Sidor, the Head of the Polish Military Mission in Rome (run by the Communist, Soviet-controlled government of Poland), taking the salute while Polish and British National Anthems are being his right is Mr Barszcz, the First Secretary of the Polish Embassy in Rome, on his left is Colonel R. Charnock, the Commander of the British Control of Polish Repatriation taken at Cervinara railway station, 13 December 1945. Sequence of NA 26518 - NA 26533 was taken during the shootin
REPATRIATION OF TROOPS OF THE 2ND POLISH CORPS FROM ITALY TO POLAND, 1945-1946 - Colonel Kazimierz Sidor, the Head of the Polish Military Mission in Rome (run by the Communist, Soviet-controlled government of Poland), taking the salute while Polish and British National Anthems are being his right is Mr Barszcz, the First Secretary of the Polish Embassy in Rome, on his left is Colonel R. Charnock, the Commander of the British Control of Polish Repatriation taken at Cervinara railway station, 13 December 1945. Sequence of NA 26518 - NA 26533 was taken during the shooting of a film on the repatriation of Polish troops from Italy. This film has been specifically requested by the British Foreign and War an agreement in Vienna on 12 November 1945, between the Allied Command in Italy, Russian, Polish and Czechoslovak authorities, the first contingent of 1 000 Polish troops out of 14 000 who have volunteered to return to Poland, left Cervinara station by train on 15 November wagons were provided by the Allied Command in Italy to reach as far as Dziedzice in Upper Silesia in train have a British escort of one officer and twelve other ranks. There is also a medical wagon with a British RAMC orderly in charge during the British supplied hot meals up to Mudejovice, Czechoslovakia, at which point a Russian, a Polish and a Czech officer joined the train. 15 days rations were also provided by the British as from the Czech border. 21 days NAAFI rations were provided for the whole awaiting their turn, the Poles stay at Polish Repatriation Camps in the vicinity. Here they were equipped to the full British scale as soldiers, which included a rifle, 50 rounds of ammunition, and four blankets per man. The rifles and ammo were supposed to be issued at Katowice, after crossing the Polish border British Army, Polish Army, Polish Armed Forces in the West, Polish Corps, II, 8th Army, Sidor, Kazimierz
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