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Photo Gallery 1 – Inside the Camp – 1944 – 1949
Posted on
26th March 2021
Posted by
Wendy Milne
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Okehampton Polish Navy
Aleksander Szypko at the camp with Oaklands House in the background – late 1946 (Peter Szypko collection)
Peter Skrzypczak at the camp with Oaklands House in the background (Rosemary Skrzypczak collection)
Three Polish sailors at the camp with Oaklands in the Background (Thomasz Ferus in the middle) (Stanislaw Ferus collection(nephew of Thomasz Ferus))
Josef Pyka at the camp with Oaklands in the background (Karl O’Brien collection (grandson of Josef Pyka))
Aleksander Slusarczyk in civilian outfit at the camp posing for a farewell photo before demob (Aleksander Slusarczyk family collection)
Stanislaw Olszowski (circled) with other Polish navy officers and army personnel outside a hut at the camp (Tony Olszowski collection)
Stanislaw Olszowski (circled) with other Polish navy officers and army personnel outside a hut at the camp (Tony Olszowski collection)
Stanislaw Olszowski (back turned) in conversation at the camp (Tony Olszowski collection)
Stanislaw Olszowski by the camp perimeter fence (Tony Olszowski collection)
Four Polish sailors probably by the camp perimeter fence (Julian Gamow collection (his father is on the right))
Four Polish sailors probably near the camp perimeter fence outside a Nissan hut (Julian Gamow collection (his father is on the right))
Group photo of army and navy Polish personnel possibly at the camp outside a Nissan hut in 1946 (Note: Wlodzimierz Arsenicz is standing 7th from the right behind the seated naval officer) (Magda Arsenicz collection)
Large group of sailors at the camp outside a Nissan hut (Richard Sroka collection)
Dymitro Sniatkowski (on the right) at the camp (Dymitro Sniatkowski family collection)
1940s aerial view of the northern half of the camp showing the exact spot from where the previous photo was taken (Peter Szypko collection)
Group of Polish sailors in front of trees at the camp (Dymitro Sniatkowski family collection)
Peter Skrzypczak (circled) and a group of Polish sailors at the camp with a wooden hut in the background in October 1945 (Rosemary Skrzypczak collection)
Peter Skrzypczak (circled) and probably the rest of the Polish naval football team posing at the camp in October 1945 (Rosemary Skrzypczak collection)
Polish Warrant Officers at the camp a month before the training facilities were closed (from the book ‘Toruń to Okehampton’ by Dariusz Nawrot).
An officer and two seaman at the camp including Stanislaw Dominiak on the left. (Stanislaw Dominiak family collection)
Playing with dogs (Ray Smul collection).
Footballers probably at the camp (Ray Smul collection).
Officers and seamen with Oaklands in the background (ORP Blyskawica Facebook group by Josie Pearson).
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