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Miss I L Lange
c/o 53 Gosbecks Road Colchester
Essex C02 9JS
Your reference
Our reference 3/004413/CS(RM)2c/W Date
August 1995
Dear Madam
Thank you for your recent letter. I am pleased to confirm the following particulars of the military service of:
30004413 Staff Sergeant Roman LANGE
born on 22 August 1911 at: Sucha, Swiecie, Pomorze, Poland
parents: Mikolaj and Marianna nee ZIELAZNA
Marital status (while serving): Married to Elizabeth nee FLEMING at the office of the Registrar, St Clement, Dundee, Scotland
on 12.7.1946 District of
Nationality: Polish Religion: Roman Catholic
Civilian occupation (prior to Army Service): Musician
Service with the Polish Forces under British Command:
from 20 October 1944 to 16 September 1946
Service with the Polish Resettlement Corps: Enlisted on 17 September 1946 Commissioned
relegated to:
Class "W" Reserve on 24 June 1947 Unemployed List
finally discharged
relinquished commission on 12 January 1948
(honourably discharged)
Conduct: Very Good
Former Service and History:Active service from 3.3.1930. Before the outbreak of the 2nd World War lived at Glinki, Bydgoszcz, Pomorze, North-Western Poland illegally seized and annexed by the 3rd German Reich in 1939. Took part with the 16 Infantry Battalion in campaign in Poland from 1.9.1939 to 18.9.1939. Compulsorily conscripted into the German Forces with which he served from 26.6.1943 to 25.8.1944 when captured and held prisoner by the Allies at Reims on the Marne, France. Transferred to Polish control and voluntarily joined the Polish Forces under British command as above. Served in the United Kingdom until finally discharged. Assigned to the 1 Transit Company on 20.10.1944. Attached to the Armoured Grenadier Division on 25.10.1944. Posted to the Defence Platoon, Armoured Grenadier Division on 26.10.1944. Transferred to the HQ Company,4 Machine Gun Battalion and Light Aid Detachment Type "B", 4 Polish Infantry Division, 1 Polish Corps on 4.6.1945. Promoted Staff Sergeant on 21.4.1946. Enlisted with the Polish Resettlement Corps as above.
Medals and Awards:
British: The War Medal 1939-45 (CS 20 enclosed)
Yours faithfully
CS(R) 20 POLISH SEARCH
Ministry of Defence
BT
A WITKO
for Departmental Record Officer
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