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Name: Roman Vladimir Skulski
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Gender: Male
Date of birth: 1921-04-15
Place of birth: Poland, Stanisławowskie, Stryjski, Stryj
Did this person die during World War ll?: No
Date of death: 2008-3-30
Place of death: Canada
Cause of Death:Angina pectoris (quadruple by-pass), with a heart attack two decades later.
Fathers given name: Basil
Entry ID: 150202 Mothers given name: Katherine
Mothers maiden name: Wagemann
Given name of spouse: Edna Letsey
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Personal Situation at the outbreak of WWll

Residence at the outbreak of WWll: Poland, Stanisławowskie, Stryjskie, Stryj, (near Stryj)
Kresy Inhabitant Status:
Ethnicity: Polish
Religion: Roman Catholic
Education Level: Secondary
Occupation at the outbreak of WWll: Two month practicum in a machine shop in order to gain practical Engineering experience
Military status at the outbreak of WWll: Not Applicable
Military Rank at the outbreak of WWll: n/a due to earlier injury

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Polish Air Force in the UK Squadron 304, No. 25(P) Elementary Flying Training (Hucknall), ITW Navigation (Croughton, England and Malton, Ontario, Canada), Clerk-Pay Accounts, St. Eval, Cornwall, England 1943 2 4 1949 3 8
Conscripted into the Red Army Tank Battalion (Voroshylovsk), Mortar Battalion (Stanica Abinskaya) Georgian Logging Unit (Northern Caucasus), March to Stalingrad (Krasnodar-Salsk), Work Battalion (Stanica Pavlovskaya), Work Brigade (Stanica Krymskaya) 1941 4 15 1942 7 19
Other Military Service: Air force Ground StaffSource: http://listakrzystka.pl/en/?p=197020
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Medals received: Wrote international officials, including Gorbachev, requesting his entitlement to Soviet medals.
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Other Information: Roman V. Skulski was conscripted into the Russian Army in April 1941, on his twentieth birthday. He escaped in 1942 and located Anders' Army in Guzar. In Teheran, he volunteered and was accepted for pilot training in the RAF (PAF) and travelled with 2,000 other Polish volunteers to the UK for flight training and also, in Roman's case, in Canada. He was in Squadron 304 at war's end.
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Residence After 1945

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United Kingdom Sussex Brighton London

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