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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
13 year old Wasyl ('Bill') Welykyi (centre) with his brother & sister, taken a week before the Second World War broke out.
"I was born in Korsun-Schevchenkivskyi Raion Cherkaska Oblast, Ukraine on 26 December 1926". (Source: Glo. All Poles? Foreign Workers in the Welsh Coalfields).