PHOTOGRAPHS AND MEMORIES

Dundee, Scotland 10 June 42, In front of headquarter. I gift this photo to Frank from Leon Strzykulski.

 

London, 23 February, 1941. To brother Frank, from a foreign land. From Julek, Kazik, Stefan, and Roman. “From me”.

Are these members of 303 Squadron the Poles who saved England in the Battle of Britain. 

 

In Warsaw, Poland 3 May 1938, A parade on Pilsudski Square in Warsaw. To my friend Frank from Leon Strzykulsk.

I am sending a photograph of Officer Anielewicz who is the one sitting on my shoulders while I drink beer.

 

A Thousand Years - The Piano Guys

 

 

LETTERS HOME

Frank Mus in the uniform of a Polish Corps Corporal

"I send a photograph to remember me by. Your husband Frank Mus. To you my wife and children.

                         Kisses, Frank ... 28 May 1942"

"Here is a memento to you my wife from your loving husband.

                    I love both of you my wife and children.

               To my wife Marisha, Usia, and little Marisha."

"From your friends Franek and Wojtek."

CAMP DEBERT, TRURO, NOVA SCOTIA

Camp Debert, Truro, Nova Scotia

                                                                   Unknown company of Regina Rifles, Truro, Nova Scotia.

BROTHERS IN ARMS

New Years Eve 1943 a long way from home. The boys got leave and took the train to Edinburgh. When my grandfather was wounded in The Netherlands he told me his two mates were killed by a German mortar bomb. He was firing the Bren gun in a foxhole. The other two men were passing up magazines. The shell landed in the hole killing the men and wounding Frank severely in both legs. It was my understanding these were the two men.

After watching Storming Juno, I see that the man on the left was Harvey 'Chief' Dreaver. God bless him. They were a band of brothers. 

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Frank is playing the accordion. His wife Mary is behind him. The picture has George Savage 125 Sherwood Street, Mansfield, Woodhouse on the back. However, it must have been taken in Canada. 

SNOW WARRIORS

The men assume firing positions in the forest.

THE OLD SWIMMING HOLE

Never my grandmother's favorite, but the boy's were good swimmers. Perhaps a prankster shot the picture at the swimming hole where the lad's were skinny dipping. Frank jumped off the Toronto Island fairy after the war and saved a man drowning. He had to knock him out to avoid being pulled under himself. They had a level of camaraderie that made the service worthwhile. Their skills from their training a boon to all. Frank told me they had to jump off a ship with a full pack prior to D Day. They wanted you to bring everything back too. Frank said it was tough coming back to the surface. At one point he didn't think it was possible. He said they lost men in that exercise.

RIFLEMAN FRANK MUS REGINA RIFLES

 

Rifleman Frank Mus

 

His wife Mary Mus is on the left. She manned the home front with four children working to supplement a soldier's pay.

 

Tasked with a burden Frank carries his weight as he always did.