Mikokaj Kruk
Service number
838/III
Military unit
16th Pomeranian Infantry Brigade Polish Army
Address
Unknown
Date of birth
Date of death
28 Jul 1946 (31 years old)
Place of birth
Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
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Family history
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Military history
Section A.K. Grave 229.
The battalion's supply and engineers were at Gainsborough. Most personnel were either 1939 pows or Warsaw uprising pows absorped from camps in Austria and absorbed into 2nd Corps ost 1945. They didn’t see combat but guarded stores/depot/supply trains in postwar Italy. They started arriving in the UK, via Liverpool, in early 1946. Kruk had not been here long before he died of a heart attack at Militia Camp,Gainsborough. He is buried in Retford cemetery (Courtesy of Michael and Elizabth Szarelis).
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Photographs
Mikokaj Kruk's headstone in East Retford Cemetery