Life Story
Stalislaw was born in 1925 in what is now Belarus. His family
were exiled to Siberia, and his brother died on the journey back
from exile, with his mother succumbing to typhoid shortly
afterwards. He survived the battle of Arnhem to serve in post-
war Germany before settling in the north of England in
Barnoldswick. He married his wife Jean and they had 3
children, but she died aged just 34. He later remarried Stella
and remained in the same town. He worked in local textile mills
before retiring. He was decorated for his actions at Arnhem.
Read Stanislaw Bajkowski’s own account of his deportation
from Poland to Siberia by the Soviets and his journey into exile,
before going on to fight at the battle of Arnhem and his life
afterwards in the UK. It is his own story in his words, and is
taken from the website www.britishpoles.uk and can be
accessed here
Stanislaw Bajkowski was born on 27th September 1925 in pre-
war Poland in the village of Holyszki, district of Wolkowysk,
province of Bialystok. (Wolkowysk is now in White Russia.) His
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