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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Pawlowski family. From left to right, Zigmund Pawlowski's mother, sister, himself and his father, when Zigmund was aged about 12.
"My father was a regular solidier, a major in the Polish army intelligence, when war broke out. I was training to be a pilot in the Polish air force at that time but the war stopped all that and I went into the underground resistence movement instead". Source: Glo. All Poles? Foreign Workers in the Welsh Coalfields.