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Major Jarek Jarmulski - Polish Soldier
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Born in Grodek Jagiellonski (then in Poland, now in the Ukraine) in the year 1917, Jarek Jarmulski served with distinction in the Polish 1st Armoured Division during the Second World War. For gallantry he earned the Polish Cross of Valour and the French Croix de Guerre with star.
Jarmulski's army career began in the Polish cadet School before a spell in Poland's Highland Division. When Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1939, Jarmulski escaped from occupied land into Budapest. Here began a series of arrests, imprisonments and escapes. With the aid of a passport issued by the Polish embassy and a visa for France, he traveled through Yugoslavia, Italy and into France where he served as a soldier defending the Maginot Line and was injured.
After the fall of France, Jarmulski was detained by Vichy forces and spent time in a number of work camps. After several unsuccessful escapes, he broke out of a camp at Perpignan and made his way to Spain. This time he was arrested by the Spanish police. A further escape assisted by the Polish Consulate saw him next in Lisbon. Once again he was imprisoned by the authorities. Finally, alongside several other Polish soldiers claiming refugee status he was allowed to travel to Gibraltar. These soldiers all then joined the British Army and were posted to Abernethy in Perthshire as part of the 1st Armoured Division.
The 1st Armoured Division took part in the D-Day landings and were in action at Lagarde and the Falaise Pocket. As the Allied offensive advanced through occupied Europe, the 1st Armoured Division fought its way through Holland and into Germany. Jarmulski received two more wounds in action.
In the early post-war period he served as an Adjutant to the Polish Special Branch dealing with soldier welfare issues.
Jarmulski met his future wife, Janina, when the Oberlangan Concentration Camp was liberated. She had been imprisoned since the Warsaw uprising. They were married at Mappen in 1947, before they settled eventually in Perth. In Perth the couple ran a number of businesses: the first a market garden business in Old Scone, then a shop in Hope Street, and finally a guest house (Tatra - named after the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains) in Pitcullen Terrace. He retired from work in 1992 and died at the end of November 2007. |
