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Old 16-04-15, 10:01 PM
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Default plane moon owl badge 307 Squadron Polish night fighter squadron

I have found this on a junk shop jacket, it looks a little bit to good.
Is it military.
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...307 Squadron was a Polish night fighter squadron..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._307...ghter_Squadron

if the badge is original ww2...then it is worth a lot of zlotys....lucky you.

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...307 Squadron was a Polish night fighter squadron..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._307...ghter_Squadron

if the badge is original ww2...then it is worth a lot of zlotys....lucky you.

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Jo, things seem to be going my way today, I went to the same junk shop and brought this photo, showing what I think is the SAME badge, as this shop is a charity type shop so does not normally have anything military. Turns out the girl knows who brought the picture in and knows that it is his family, so am hopefully going meet them soon and get this mans military details.
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wonderful find !!!
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Met with the chap who took the photo into the shop, he told me the following;


Chap in photo is TEDEAUS BIALECKI, his uncle, chaps nickname was TED.

Married KAYE or KATE CLAYTON

lived in a house after the war in Norwich ( the same road that i was born on). Ted

was based at Horsham St.Faiths (NORWICH Airport).

Ted and Kaye moved to PERTH AUS and did crop spraying till he died.

Kaye moved back to Norwich.

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Old 16-08-16, 07:21 PM
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Clayton Kate E - Bialecki Tadeus S. Norwich, December 1947.
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Old 16-08-16, 07:28 PM
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Met with the chap who took the photo into the shop, he told me the following;


Chap in photo is TEDEAUS BIALECKI, his uncle, chaps nickname was TED.

Married KAYE or KATE CLAYTON

lived in a house after the war in Norwich ( the same road that i was born on). Ted

was based at Horsham St.Faiths (NORWICH Airport).

Ted and Kaye moved to PERTH AUS and did chop spraying till he died.

Kaye moved back to Norwich.

Just to get it right his first name would be spelled TADEUSZ...

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Clayton Kate E - Bialecki Tadeus S. Norwich, December 1947.
He died in Perth, Western Australia in 1957.

http://biblioteka.wsosp.pl/index.php...sz-stefan.html
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Just to get it right his first name would be spelled TADEUSZ...

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Edit - Ignore my post below. I read 307 as 303.

I will have to take more water with it.

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It seems as if 303 Squadron got his name wrong too.

Or, more likely, a man with the same surname served in the squadron as well. The photo of Bronislaw BIALECKI does not look anything like the man in the the wedding photo above.

BIALECKI could be a very common name, but why is "our" man not listed?

http://www.polishsquadronsremembered...pilotlist.html

It's sad that so few of these men both survived the was and got to go home to Poland.
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Met with the chap who took the photo into the shop, he told me the following;


Chap in photo is TEDEAUS BIALECKI, his uncle, chaps nickname was TED.

Married KAYE or KATE CLAYTON

lived in a house after the war in Norwich ( the same road that i was born on). Ted

was based at Horsham St.Faiths (NORWICH Airport).

Ted and Kaye moved to PERTH AUS and did chop spraying till he died.

Kaye moved back to Norwich.

Here's a list of Polish pilots.......his name doesn't appears.....

http://www.polishairforce.pl/menuzyciorysy.html

...but he is on this one.....P2745. see "List of Airmen"

http://www.polishsquadronsremembered.com/
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Old 16-08-16, 08:17 PM
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P2745 seems to be our man . THANKS ALL so far.
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...its working together like this for the benefit of others that never ceases to amaze me about members on this Forum!

Great find and well done all in trying to unravel the history of this.
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Great stuff chaps.

A find in a Charity shop of a mystery badge to a great conclusion.

Wholeheartedly agree with Woofy.

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Default My great uncle Ted

Hi all,

I'm delighted to have stumbled on this - the man in the picture is my great uncle and his wife, my great auntie Kay. Sadly she died three years ago but was a lovely woman. Could I ask where the picture came from, was it the ship with the badge? I'm a bit of a WW2 enthusiast so delighted to have found this forum
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