Of the 127 generals (4 with the rank of Lieutenant General, 22 with the rank of Major General, 97 with the rank of Brigadier General, 1 Vice Admiral and 2 Rear Admirals) who were in the West in 1945, only 20 decided to return home. The rest remained in exile, mostly in Great Britain. Only four top-ranking commanders received modest pensions from the British authorities (including Gen Władysław Anders and Gen Stanisław Kopański). Fifteen were granted one-off allowances of £1,000 and loans of £2,000 each, which had to be repaid.

Most of the generals then had to look for work for themselves and this was usually manual labour. Some decided to go overseas. Fourteen of them arrived in Canada and settled in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Edmonton, including former Commander-in-Chief General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, who bought a farm in Arundel, Quebec. Others, making the proverbial ends meet, preferred to work hard physically and be free rather than be imprisoned, tortured and later most likely executed in Communist Poland. Two wartime generals, although deceased in Canada rest outside Canada:

Lieutenant General Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885-1969) ; Polish military commander and politician, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces (1943-1944). He died on 11 October 1969 in Arundel, Canada. The General's body was cremated at a facility located on Mont Royal in Montreal. Initially, in accordance with the last will of the deceased, the urn containing his ashes was deposited in the St Stanislaus Church in Paris - the General wished to be laid to rest as close to Poland as possible and to return to Poland when it regained its independence. A little later, Sosnkowski's remains were transferred to the tomb of the Polish Historical and Literary Society in the Les Champeaux cemetery in Montmorency near Paris. On 12 November 1992, the urn containing his ashes was brought to Poland and deposited in the basement of the Archcathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Warsaw.

Major-General Tadeusz Adam Kasprzycki (1891-1978); Major-General of the Polish Army, Minister of Military Affairs in the years 1935-1939. After his death in Montreal, the General's ashes were transported to London. The ashes of two generals, promoted contemporaries, rest in Poland:

Brigadier General Michal Mieczyslaw Wojciech Gutowski (1910-2006) ; Olympian, cavalryman, officer of General Stanislaw Maczek's 1st Armoured Division. In 1999, the President of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, promoted him to the rank of retired brigadier general. He returned to Poland in 2000. He died in Warsaw. He was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery.

Brigadier General Tadeusz Władysław Sawicz (1914-2011) ; pilot, was the last surviving Polish participant in the Battle of Britain and the last surviving soldier of the Pursuit Brigade, which defended Warsaw during the September Campaign. By order of the President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, on 3 May 2006, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. He died in Toronto. He was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.

Resting in Ottawa are:

Brigadier-General Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann (1894-1986) ; studied at the Lviv Polytechnic University there in the field of road and bridge construction, his studies were interrupted by the First World War. In August 1914, he joined the Polish Legions. In 1917, after the oath crisis, he was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian Army. On 4 November 1918, he transferred to the Polish Army. During the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919, he was taken prisoner, but was released from it after the alliance between Piłsudski and Petlura. During the Polish-Bolshevik War, he distinguished himself as an able commander. In 1932, he took command of the 9th Infantry Division, and six years later he was transferred to the position of deputy commander of the Border Protection Corps (KOP) in eastern Poland. The following year, he took command of this formation. After the USSR invaded Poland, having repulsed the first Red Army attacks, Rückemann decided to break through with his subordinate troops towards Warsaw and units of General Franciszek Kleeberg's Independent Operational Group "Polesie". Despite the fact that his grouping then numbered around 9,000 men, had only two artillery batteries and negligible reserves of ammunition and food, the soldiers took up arms against the Red Army. On the night of 27-28 September, after a routed attack on Shack, the village was captured and the Soviet 52nd Rifle Division defending it suffered heavy losses. On 1 October 1939, KOP units were attacked by the Soviet 45th Rifle Division. After a day-long defence, General Rückemann ordered the unit to be disbanded. In order to avoid being taken prisoner, he himself broke through to Lithuania and on to Sweden. From there, with the help of the Polish consulate, he reached Great Britain. Until the end of the war, OrlikRückemann held various staff positions, including that of the General Inspectorate of the Polish Resettlement Corps in Great Britain from 1945 to 1947. After the war, General Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann settled in London before moving to join his family in Canada in 1972. He was decorated with, among others, the Order of Virtuti Militari and the Cross of Valour four times. On 19 September 2017, a stone obelisk dedicated to the general's memory was unveiled in Luban with the plaque: "In tribute to the last commander of the Border Protection Corps on the occasion of the presentation of a banner and the naming of Brigadier-General Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann to the Border Guard Specialist Training Centre in Luban". He died in Ottawa and was buried in Notre-Dame Cemetery.

Location: 455 Montreal Rd., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Maj. Gen. Stefan Sznuk (1896-1986) ; studied chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology. During the First World War, he served in the Russian army. On 20 November 1918, he joined the Polish Army and was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant, was assigned to the so-called 1st Aviation Battalion, and underwent training at the Higher Aviation Courses for officers at the newly-established Military Aviation School. In November 1919, he became an observer pilot in the 12th Intelligence Squadron. He participated in the Polish-Russian War. From November 1936, he was commander of the Air Force Officer Cadet School in Dęblin. Then at the Aviation Training Centre No. 1 in that city. In mid-June 1939, he was appointed commander of the Aviation School Group. In the September campaign, he commanded aviation and anti-aircraft defence in the "Kraków" Army. After the capitulation through Romania, he got to France and further to Great Britain, where he served as Chief of Staff of the Inspector of the Polish Air Force during the Battle of Britain. From 1940 to 1942 in Canada, he was head of the Polish Military and Air Force Mission in Windsor. After the mission was abolished, he returned to London, but not for long, as from August 1945 he was Polish Military and Air Attaché in Ottawa. Due to the non-recognition of the Polish Government on the Vistula, his post was abolished. He returned to the UK again, and after demobilisation in August 1947, he emigrated permanently to Canada. In Ottawa, he joined the Canadian government service and worked in the Department of National Defence. He attained the rank of Brigadier General (Brigadier General) in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was active in the Canadian Polish community and maintained close social relations with the government elite, including Lester Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada. He was awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari, twice the Cross of Valour and the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour. He died in Ottawa and was buried in Notre-Dame Cemetery.

Location: 455 Montreal Rd., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Maj. Gen. Pilot Dr. Józef Ludwik Zając (1891-1963) ; studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1915, he completed his doctoral studies, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In 1914, he joined the Polish Legions, initially serving in the 3rd Infantry Regiment as commander of a platoon, company, battalion and regiment. He served in the Carpathian, Bessarabian and Volyn campaigns, and was wounded twice. On 15th March 1918, he moved with General Jozef Haller's Second Brigade to Ukraine, after which he served as commander of the 15th Rifle Regiment in the Second Polish Corps. On 11th May 1918, in the battle of Kaniów, he was taken prisoner by the Germans, from which he escaped by making his way to France. After returning home, he was sent to the front of the ongoing Polish-Soviet War. During the September Campaign, he was Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force and Anti-Aircraft Defence, then became commander of the Polish Air Force in France. After the fall of France and reaching the United Kingdom, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the I Corps in Scotland. A year later he took command of the Polish Army in the Middle East. Subsequently, he was deputy commander of the Polish Army in the East and then commander of the I Armoured Motor Corps in Scotland. After demobilisation in 1948, he settled in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he began his studies in psychology and art history, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy degree in psychology for the second time in 1951. In 1957 he moved to Canada. He was a lecturer at British, American and Canadian universities, an acknowledged expert in the visual arts and a collector of works of art -108 paintings and 1,765 prints he donated to the Silesian Museum in Katowice. He was awarded, among others, the Order of Virtuti Militari. He died in Ottawa and was buried in Notre-Dame Cemetery.

Location: 455 Montreal Rd., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Buried in Toronto are:

Lieutenant General Stanislaw Jastrzembiec Bobrowski (1896-1990) ; he was born in Okocim into the noble Jastrzębca-Bobrowski family. In Vienna, he completed gymnasium and passed his matriculation exam, after which he was conscripted into the Austrian army, specifically into the 57th "Tarnów" infantry regiment. After training as a cadet corporal, he took command of a platoon on the Italian front in the Tyrol. During combat in the Kras mountains, he was taken prisoner. There he volunteered to join the nascent Polish Army and was assigned to the Servicio di Avvicinamento, or intelligence service. He then enlisted in Haller's army in France. With it, he returned to Poland in April 1919 and was immediately sent to the Eastern Front. He took part in the Kiev offensive. There, he was awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari for his bravery. In 1923, he joined the Second Branch of the General Staff, the intelligence service in Warsaw. After training, he became head of intelligence to the west, then deputy head of counter-intelligence for the whole Army, and during the May coup he was promoted to head of "two". During the September campaign, as part of the 27th Division, he took part in the Battle of the Bzura, where he demonstrated not only his leadership skills, but also his cold blood and ability to make instant decisions. When he was taken prisoner by the Germans in an oflag, he organised secret lectures at the Higher War College for officers. After his liberation, he began serving as a liaison officer with the 9th US Army. After the war ended, he decided to emigrate to Canada. He settled in Toronto, where he supported himself with his own application writing office and... beekeeping. However, he still remained politically active. He corresponded with the Prime Minister of Canada and successive US presidents. He was an honorary admiral of the US fleet and a Knight of Malta. He was actively involved in Polish-American organisations, and his home hosted, among others, General Władysław Anders. "Father always loved nature, music and people. He always respected human dignity. He was very modest, he did not seek recognition or honours for himself," recalls his daughter Krystyna. He was awarded, among others, the Order of Virtuti Militari twice (gold and silver cross), as well as the Order of the White Eagle and the Order of Polonia Restituta. He died in 1990 in Toronto and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Location: 211 Langstaff Rd E, Thornhill, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Brigadier-General Jerzy Grobicki (1891-1972) ; Imperial and Royal Army cavalry officer, soldier in the Foreign Legion from 1906 to 1907. In 1908, as a Serbian partisan in Macedonia, he fought against the Turks. In Austria, he was a student at the Cavalry Officers' School at the Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt. After completing his studies, he became a professional cavalry officer in the Austrian army. A participant in the struggle for Polish independence in World War I and the war against the Bolsheviks, he was a "Zavonian". After graduating from the Training Course at the Higher War College in Warsaw and receiving an academic diploma as a General Staff officer, he was assigned to the General Cavalry Inspectorate in Warsaw. In the September campaign, he became commander of the Borderland Cavalry Brigade. From 27 September 1939 to 25 August 1941, he was in Soviet captivity. After his release, he was accepted into the Polish Armed Forces and appointed deputy commander of the 5th Infantry Division. In 1942, he became an officer of the Polish Army Command in the Middle East, then commander of the 6th Lvov Rifle Brigade and liaison officer to the commander of the 2nd Polish Corps to the French Corps. In March 1945, he was assigned to the Command of Military Units in the Middle East. Later he was military attaché to the government of Chiang Kai-shek. Until 1947, he was commander of Camp Quassasin in Egypt. He then lived in exile in Canada. He was decorated, among others: twice with the Order of Virtuti Militari (gold and silver cross) and four times with the Cross of Valour. He died in Toronto and was buried in the veterans' quarters at Holy Cross Cemetery in Toronto.

Location: 211 Langstaff Rd E, Thornhill, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Major General Emil Karol Przedrzymirski de Krukowicz (1886 -1957) ; studied at the Military Technical Academy in Mödling. During the First World War he was wounded in the fighting near Busk near Lvov. From 1915 to 1916 he was a lecturer and then commander of a training company at the Artillery Cadet School in Traiskirchen near Vienna. On 10 November 1918, he volunteered for service in the Polish Army. During the Polish-Russian War in 1920, he took command of the 16th Field Artillery Regiment being formed in Grudziądz. He later commanded the regiment on the North-Eastern Front. He was awarded the Silver Cross of the Military Order of Virtuti Militari for his battles for Horodec in Polesia, and in 1935 the city granted him honorary citizenship. During the German invasion of 1939, the "Modlin" Army under his command fought a three-day battle at Mława (1-3 September 1939), facing the German 3rd Army of General Georg von Küchler. After bloody battles, the so-called Army of General Przedrzymirski was formed from the rest of the units of the "Modlin" Army and the "Wyszków" Operational Group, which tried to break through to Romania. Unfortunately, in the area of Krasnobrod and Tereszpol, when the Polish units were encircled by the overwhelming enemy forces, he came to the conclusion that, due to the disastrous location and lack of ammunition and food, breaking through to the south-east had no chance of success. He did not sign the surrender until 26 September 1939 in a forest near Góreckie Kościelne, allowing the troops to destroy their equipment. Gen. Przedrzymirski shared the fate of his soldiers - he was taken into German captivity. After being liberated by the Americans, he went to Nice, where he acted as a representative of the 18 brigadier generals staying there to the Polish military authorities in London. In 1949, he and his wife moved to Canada, where his daughter Małgorzata had previously settled with her husband Eng. Tadeusz Świderski. After a year's stay in Montreal, he settled in Toronto. He was decorated with, among others, the Order of Virtuti Militari. On 23 August 2006, the Minister of National Defence named the 16th Pomeranian Artillery Regiment in Braniewo after him. He died suddenly of a heart attack in Toronto and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Location: 211 Langstaff Rd E, Thornhill, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Maj. Gen. Mieczyslaw Norwid-Neugebauer (1884-1954) ; graduate of the mechanical engineering department of the Lviv Polytechnic. In the years 1914-1917, an officer in the Polish Legions, commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the Legions and temporarily of the 3rd Brigade of the Legions. A participant in the First World War and the Polish-Soviet War of 1920. Since regaining independence in November 1918, he served in various command posts in the Polish Army, including as Second Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army and Chief Quartermaster. In December 1925, he was appointed First Deputy Chief of Army Administration. He was Army Inspector in Lwów, Toruń and Warsaw. In the years 1930-32, he held the post of Minister of Public Works in the cabinets of Walery Sławek and Aleksander Prystor. On 3rd September 1939, he was appointed Head of the Polish Military Mission in London. He held the post of Head of the Military Mission until January 1940. In the years 1942-1947, he was Chief of Administration of the Polish Armed Forces. He was decorated with, among others, the Order of Virtuti Militari and the Cross of Valour nine times. He died in Toronto and was buried in Pine Hill Cemetery in Scarborough, Ontario. Location: 625 Birchmount Rd., Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Brig. Gen. Stanislaw Ujejski (1891-1981); studied at the Polytechnic University of Bern, Switzerland. During the First World War he was called up to the Imperial Home Defence. He was listed in the military records as Stanislaus Ritter von Ujejski. In April 1918, he became a student at the Air School and later served in the balloon troops. On 8 November 1918, he joined the Polish Army and received the rank of lieutenant. In 1926, he attended the Conference of Disarmament in Geneva as an aviation expert. He was assigned to the 2nd Aviation Regiment. At the War College he was a lecturer in aviation tactics. On 3 January 1929, he was transferred to the Aviation Officers' Training Centre in Dęblin as commander, and in April 1933 he was appointed commander of the 3rd Aviation Group in Cracow, then transferred to the position of commander of the 1st Aviation Group in Warsaw. In 1937, he became Chief of the Air Staff at the General Staff. After the capitulation, he made his way through Romania to France, where he served as Deputy Commander of the Polish Air Force (PSP). Later, in the UK, he was the General Inspector of the PSP. After demobilisation, he left for Canada and settled with his family in Toronto. He was decorated with, among others, the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Order of Commander with Star of the Order of the Bath. He died in Toronto and was laid to rest in a family grave at Park Lawn Cemetery. On 28 August 2014, an urn containing the ashes of General Stanislaw Ujejski was placed in the columbarium of the Field Cathedral of the Polish Army in Warsaw, Poland, during the ceremonial celebration of the Polish Air Force Day with an assist of honour by the Representative Company and the Air Force Representative Band.

Location: 2845 Bloor St.W., Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In Montreal rests:

Brig. Gen. Aleksander Hrynkiewicz (1896-1981) ; the last adjutant of Marshal Józef Piłsudski. He was a member of the Riflemen's Association from 1912, and served in the Polish Army from 1918. An officer in Józef Piłsudski's 1st Cavalry Regiment. In the ranks of this regiment he took part in the Polish-Soviet War, commanding a platoon. In 1928, he was promoted to the rank of captain in the cavalry officers' corps. On 21st March 1935, he was transferred to the Cabinet of the Minister of Military Affairs as adjutant to Marshal Józef Piłsudski, and remained so until his death. He was at the Belvedere on 12 May at 20:45, when the informal leader of Poland died. In his diary he described the last moments of the Marshal's life:

"Some thought, some will is explained by the faint movement of his hands, which during his life and during his illness were always so active and mobile. A grave silence envelops the room, only broken by the Commander's heavy breathing and the faint muffled whistle of air squeezed through the larynx. (...) As if with a breath of spring wind, life flies away on its wings and on the sign made by the Commandant's hand for the last time. The minutes drag on one after another... long as the past decades burdened with history..."

In 1939, he served as deputy commander of Józef Piłsudski's 1st Cavalry Regiment. After the September defeat, he did not surrender and did not leave Poland, but took up the underground fight against the Germans in the ranks of the Home Army. From 1941, he was commander of the 5th Mokotow District of the Home Army, aliases: "Przegonia", "Marek", "Wioślarz", "Wizytator". He took an active part in fighting during the Warsaw Uprising. After the fall of the uprising, he was in German captivity. After the war, he returned to Poland, revealed himself and was sent to work in the Regained Territories. Subjected to much harassment by the communist security police, he decided to flee and arrived in Canada in the 1960s. He settled first in Toronto and later in Montreal. He was awarded, among others, the Order of Virtuti Militari and the Cross of Valour three times. He died in Montreal and was buried in Mount Royal Cemetery.

Location: 1297 Foret Rd.,Outremount, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

In St. Adele rests:

Maj. Gen. Waclaw Teofil Stachiewicz (1894-1973) ; studied geology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Lvov. In 1912, he joined the Active Combat Association and the Riflemen's Association, where he graduated from the non-commissioned officer school and the lower officer school. After the outbreak of the First World War, he joined the Polish Legions. In March 1917, he completed the General Staff Officers' Course at the Inspectorate of the Polish Armed Forces in Warsaw, and as early as August he was conscripted into the Austrian Army with the rank of sergeant and posted to the Italian front. He deserted and made his way to Warsaw, where in the reborn Polish Army he held a number of very responsible posts, including that of chief of Branch I and deputy chief of staff of the Warsaw General District Command, liaison officer of the Supreme Command of the Polish Armed Forces at the command of the Third Polish Army Corps in France, and head of a division in Department I of the Ministry of Military Affairs. During the Soviet offensive in May 1920, he became chief of Division I, and then of Division II, of General Sosnkowski's Reserve Army Staff. There, he also served as an operations officer. On 26 January 1935, at the request of Minister of Military Affairs Józef Piłsudski, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General by Polish President Ignacy Mościcki. This was the last general nomination signed by the Marshal. Appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, he became one of the closest co-workers of the new Inspector General of the Armed Forces, Major General Edward Śmigły-Rydz. In this position, he undertook intensive work on the rebuilding and modernisation of the army, supervised the creation of a new mobilisation plan "W", and coordinated work on a plan for war with Russia ("East" plan), and from 4 March 1939 also with Germany ("West" plan). At the outbreak of war, he took up the post of Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Marshal Śmigły-Rydz. He crossed the Romanian border, where he was interned at Stanic-Prahova near Ploeszti. However, he escaped and through Bucharest made his way to Yugoslavia and then on to Algiers. From there he got to London, where he stayed until the end of the war without any assignment. In December 1948, he moved to Canada. He settled in Montreal with his wife and children, who had been there for several years. There he died of a heart attack. "The emigration lost in the person of General Stachiewicz a righteous and great soldier, who remained faithful to the idea of Józef Piłsudski until his death, and lost a great Pole who served his Homeland with all his heart", wrote Franciszek Bratek-Kozłowski in his memoirs (Życie z baynetem i lancetem, wspomnienia - refleksje, Canadian Polish Research Institute, Toronto 1989). Decorated with, among others, the Order of Virtuti Militari and the Cross of Valour four times. He rests in the cemetery in St. Adele, Quebec. In 2004, the general became the patron saint of the Operational Duty Service of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland.

Location: 1412 Reu Dumouchel, Sainte Adele, Quebec, Canada.

At Saint-Sauveur rests:

Major General Antoni Szylling (1884-1971) ; took an active part in the secret militant organisations "Proletariat" and the PPS militia. Conscripted into the Russian army in the Russian hinterland, where he stayed for 2 years. Between 1909 and 1912, he completed the Industrial and Agricultural Courses at the Higher Agricultural School in Warsaw. On 27 January 1919, he was accepted into the Polish Army and commanded the 44th Infantry Regiment in the Polish-Bolshevik War. On 1 January 1926, he was renamed from a reserve officer to a professional officer, with the rank of colonel, and transferred to the 23rd Infantry Division in Katowice as commander of the divisional infantry. Meanwhile, from 3 January to 24 June 1927, he was a student of the Third Course of the Centre for Higher Military Studies in Warsaw. On 25 May 1937, he was appointed general to work under the General Inspector of the Armed Forces. In the September campaign, he commanded the "Kraków" Army, which, although surrounded several times, reached as far as the Lublin region. At Tomaszów, the Polish units fought their last battle. Gen. Szylling was taken prisoner by the Germans and stayed in POW camp VII A Murnau until 30 April 1945. Liberated by the Americans - he went first to France, then to Great Britain and Canada. He was decorated, among others, twice with the Order of Virtuti Militari (gold and silver cross) and three times with the Cross of Valour. He died in Montreal and was buried in a cemetery in Saint-Sauveur, Quebec.

Location: 130 rue de I'Eglise, Polish section, Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada.

Gen. Lieutenant General Michał Tadeusz Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski (1893-1964) ; symbolically commemorated on the tombstone of the grave where they rest: General's wife Antonina Karaszewicz-Tokarzewska (1899- 1976) , a well-known social activist dedicated to the care and assistance of veterans and veterans of World War I and World War II, one of the founders of the Association of Polish War Refugees and the Committee to Aid Polish Children in Montreal, General's daughter Irena Petrusewiczowa (1919-2006) , a volunteer at the Polish Library in Montreal, among others.among others at the Polish Library in Montreal, and Stanislaw Petrusewicz (1912-2005) , Irena's husband, an engineer who during the war came to Ottawa, where he worked at a plant producing landing gear for bomber planes, was one of the founders of the Association of Polish Engineers in Canada, and after the war settled in Montreal, where he worked at Wajax Co. Ltd, successively as project engineer, project chief, chief engineer and vice-president. Michał Tadeusz Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz studied law in Lvov and later medicine at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. From 1914, he served in the Polish Legions. In 1919, he became famous for his daring action to liberate Lvov. He also fought heroically during the Polish-Soviet War. From 1922 to 1924, he pursued higher military studies in France. He took part in the September campaign as commander of the "Pomerania" Army, and then of the Operational Group within the "Poznań" Army. Having broken through to Warsaw, he was appointed commander of the "Warsaw" Army. After the Germans entered the capital, he set up a military conspiracy organisation called the Polish Victory Service, and contributed to the creation of the Polish Underground State (aliases: Doktor, Stawski, Stolarski, Torwid). In 1940, he left for Lvov to take command of the eastern area of Poland under Soviet occupation. Arrested by the NKVD and imprisoned, he was sentenced to five years in prison and transported to a gulag near Arkhangelsk. In 1943, he joined the forming Polish Army under the command of General Anders. Promoted to major general, he became deputy commander of the Polish Army in the East. After demobilisation, he remained in exile and settled in London, where he was promoted to Lieutenant General in 1964. He was a member of the National Council, an advisory body to the President of the Republic of Poland, a freemason, a theosophist and a clergyman of the Liberal Catholic Church. He held the highest Polish and foreign military honours, including the Order of the White Eagle, twice the Order of Virtuti Militari (2nd and 5th Class), Polonia Restituta (3rd and 4th Class), Cross of Independence with Swords, and the Cross of Valour five times. He died in 1964 in Casablanca (Morocco). He was buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. In 1992, the general's ashes, along with those of other commanders of the Polish Underground, were laid to rest at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.

Location: 130 rue de I'Eglise, Polish section, Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada

Resting in Edmonton:

Brig. Gen. Romuald Wolikowski (1891-1992) ; after graduating from cadet school, he was admitted to military school in Moscow. During the First World War he fought on the Western Front. In 1917, he joined the First Polish Corps in Russia, from which he was sent to the Imperial Nikolaev Military Academy, as a course student. A year later, after the corps was disbanded, he made his way to Ufa and on to Buguruslav and Novokuznetovsk, where, together with Valerian Czuma, he organised Polish military formations. He then served as Chief of Staff of the 5th Polish Rifle Division. From Russia, he went via Japan and Hawaii to the United States. In April 1919, together with Haller's Army, he returned to Poland. He was accepted into the Polish Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel and appointed commander of the 17th Infantry Brigade. He went on to serve as Chief of Staff of the Polesie Group and the 5th Army. At the time, he was General Władysław Sikorski's closest associate. In the September campaign, he commanded the "Poznań" Army stages. On 18 September 1939, he evacuated to Romania, and then, with General Sikorski's consent, to France and England. In August 1941, after the Sikorski-Mayski pact and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the USSR, he left for Moscow, where he took up the post of attaché and head of the Polish Military Mission. From September 1942, he was commandant of officer courses at the Polish Army Command in the East. From April 1944 to 1946, he remained at the disposal of the Minister of National Defence, and later of the Chief of the General Staff in London. Awarded, among others, the Order of Virtuti Militari and the Cross of Valour four times. After demobilisation, he settled in Edmonton. He died in St. Joseph's Hospital and was buried in the Catholic Cemetery in St. Albert, Alberta.

Location: 7 A St. Vital Ave., St. Albert, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.