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Digital copy of a Registration card issued to Alojzy ('Pal') Josef Hellis.

"I was born in Katowice, Poland, in 1925 and was a schooboy in 1939 when war broke out. After the Nazis invaded Poland I was sent to Germany as a slave labourer. I was sent to a Displaced Persons camp in Scotland where we were given the chance to join the army, which most of my countrymen did. I joined on 23 March 1942. After demob I came to Wales to workin the mines". (Source: Glo. All Poles? Foreign Workers in the Welsh Coalfields).