Rudolf Karol Kogler (1919-1998), Polish military officer. He was president and director of the Canadian-Polish Research Institute. He took part in the 1939 campaign. Interned in Hungary, he escaped to Syria, where he joined the Polish Army and fought at Tobruk and Monte Cassino. After demobilisation, he studied at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he obtained a degree in economics and experimental psychology. In 1952, he came to Canada, where he worked as a domographer, doing a statistical survey of the population in the province of Ontario. He was actively involved in Polish-Canadian organisations (veterans, Canadian Polish Congress and the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association). Author and co-author of many books documenting the history of the Canadian Polish community, including The Polish Community in Canada, Half a Century of Canadian Polish Congress, Poles in Toronto . He died in Toronto and is buried in the local Holy Cross Cemetery (Ontario).