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Good manners meant good food.
The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, London

Boarding the
MS Batory
in Alexandria, Egypt.
The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, London

Wojtek in Palestine with members of the Polish Women’s Army in 1943.
The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, London

Wojtek in the FWD HAR-1 Truck.
The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, London

Jim Little as postman in Moniaive.

The author’s grandfather leading a remembrance parade.

Wojtek at Winfield Camp.

Three girls: Actress Elaine C Smith, Margo MacDonald MSP and Aileen Orr.

Aileen with Woytek maquette.

Maquette by Alan Beattie Herriot.

 

Index

Afghanistan
ref 1
,
ref 2

Alexandria, Egypt
ref 1

Ancona, Italy
ref 1

Anders, General Wladyslaw
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5
,
ref 6
,
ref 7
,
ref 8
,
ref 9
,
ref 10

Anders’ Polish Army
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4

Andrzejewska, Maja
ref 1

Anzio, Italy
ref 1
,
ref 2

Ashkhabad, Polish mission at
ref 1

Atlee, government of Clement
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4

Aurunci Mountains
ref 1

Australia
ref 1

Austro-Hungarian Empire
ref 1

Baczor, Vic
ref 1

Balkans, dancing bears in
ref 1

Baltic ports, Nazi threat to
ref 1

Bamse (Norwegian St Bernard mascot)
ref 1

Bandurski, Mateusz
ref 1

Barnett, Ambassador Robin
ref 1
,
ref 2

Barony Castle, Eddleston
ref 1
,
ref 2

Battle of Britain
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

bears in ancient cultures
ref 1

Belorussia
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5

Beria, Lavrenty
ref 1

Berling, General Zygmunt
ref 1
,
ref 2

Berwick

Berwick Arms Hotel
ref 1

Berwick Bear
ref 1

Brown Bear pub in
ref 1

Dutch trade with (and red pantiles as ballast)
ref 1

technically at war with Russia
ref 1

Wojtek’s visits to
ref 1

Bevin, Ernest
ref 1
,
ref 2

Biggar, Lanarkshire
ref 1

Biggar Museum
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

Bismarck, Count Otto von
ref 1

Black Watch at Monte Cassino
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4

Blackadder River
ref 1

Blessed, Brian
ref 1

Bodega Bar, Dundee
ref 1

Bolshevik Revolution (1917)
ref 1
,
ref 2

Bór-Komorowski, General Tadeusz
ref 1

Bowden
ref 1

Boxer Rebellion in China
ref 1

Breda, liberation of
ref 1

Bridge of Earn
ref 1

British 8th Army
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

Brodie, William
ref 1

Brown, Archie
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

Burdett-Coutts, Baroness
ref 1

Buzek, President Jerzy
ref 1
,
ref 2

Calton Hill
ref 1

camels in war
ref 1

Campbell, Ian
ref 1

Campbell, Sonia
ref 1

canaries in war
ref 1

Carpathian Lancers Regiment
ref 1
,
ref 2

Carpathian Rifle Brigade
ref 1
,
ref 2

Caspian Sea
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

Catherine II of Russia
ref 1

Chain Bridge Honey Farm
ref 1

Chalmers (Czamer), Alexander
ref 1
,
ref 2

Chambers, Sir William
ref 1

The Charterhall Story
(Thompson, J.B.)
ref 1

Chelminski, Major
ref 1
,
ref 2

Chopin, Frédéric
ref 1

Churchill, Winston S.
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5

pledge to Poles at end of war
ref 1

Sikorski and, agreement for Polish army to re-arm in Scotland
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

at Teheran conference
ref 1

at Yalta conference
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

Chuzanow, Adam
ref 1

Clancy, Tom
ref 1

Clark, Jim
ref 1

Clarke, MBE, John (Black Watch at Monte Cassino)
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4

Cormack, John
ref 1

Corson, Margot
ref 1

Crawford, Lanarkshire
ref 1

Czechoslovakia, Nazi occupation of
ref 1

Czeremosz River
ref 1

Czestochowa Pipe Band
ref 1

Daley, PC Simon
ref 1

Danzig (Gda
ń
sk)
ref 1
,
ref 2

Davies, Norman
ref 1

Dawnay, James
ref 1

de Gaulle, Charles
ref 1

de Vink, Peter
ref 1

Defence of the Realm Regulations
ref 1

Demarco, Richard
ref 1
,
ref 2

Denholm, Mrs (cook at Winfield Camp)
ref 1

dogs in war
ref 1
,
ref 2

Dollan, Sir Patrick
ref 1

dolphins, sea lions and whales in war
ref 1
,
ref 2

Douglas, Lanarkshire
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

Dumfries, Assembly Rooms in
ref 1

Dundee
ref 1

Dunlop of Mayfield, Mrs
ref 1

Duns, Berwickshire
ref 1

twinned with Zagan
ref 1

Polish Cultural Festival In
ref 1

Edinburgh Castle
ref 1

Edinburgh City Council
ref 1

Edinburgh-Kraków partnership
ref 1

Edinburgh Military Tattoo
ref 1

Edinburgh Sick Children’s Hospital
ref 1

Edinburgh World Heritage
ref 1

Edinburgh Zoo
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5
,
ref 6
,
ref 7
,
ref 8

Egypt
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

elephants in war
ref 1

Enigma code
ref 1

European Parliament
ref 1

European Union (EU)
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

Fabiani MSP, Linda
ref 1

Falaise Gap
ref 1

Falkirk Polish Club
ref 1

Fergusson MSP, Alex
ref 1

Fields of Hope
(Pola Nadziei)
campaign
ref 1

Finland
ref 1

First World War
ref 1
,
ref 2

Fleming family (Winfield farm)
ref 1
,
ref 2

Foulden, Berwickshire
ref 1

France

fall of (1940)
ref 1

French resistance to Nazism
ref 1

Normandy landings and fighting in
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4

Franchetti, Vincent
ref 1

Frank, Hans
ref 1

French Expeditionary Corps
ref 1

game hunting
ref 1

Gavinton, Berwickshire
ref 1

Genghis Khan
ref 1

Gillespie, Thomas
ref 1

Glasgow
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5

Glover, Janella
ref 1

Gray, John
ref 1

Great Polish Map of Scotland
ref 1

Greenlaw, Berwickshire
ref 1

Greyfriars Bobby
ref 1

Gustav Line
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5

Habsburg Empire
ref 1
,
ref 2

Hamadan City and Province
ref 1
,
ref 2

Herriot, Alan Beattie
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5
,
ref 6
,
ref 7
,
ref 8
-
ref 9

Historic Scotland
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4

Hitler, Adolf
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4

Hood, Will
ref 1

horses in war
ref 1

Howgate, Midlothian
ref 1

Hungary
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

Hutton, Berwickshire
ref 1
,
ref 2

hyper-communication
ref 1

India
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

Iran
see
Persia

Iraq
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5
,
ref
6

Italy
ref 1

see also
Monte Cassino

Jagiellonian University, Kraków
ref 1

Jandoo, Dr Raj
ref 1

Karolewski (Kay), Augustyn
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5
,
ref 6
,
ref 7

Karski, Jan
ref 1

Kaska the monkey
ref 1

Katyn Forest, massacre in
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

Kazakhstan
ref 1

Kelso, Roxburghshire
ref 1

Kenya
ref 1

KGB
ref 1

Kiev
ref 1

King’s Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB)
ref 1
,
ref 2

Kirkuk, Iraq
ref 1

Kociuszko, Tadeusz
ref 1

Kociuszko Division
ref 1

Kotonowicz, Anna
ref 1

Kozielsk prison camp
ref 1
,
ref 2

Kraków
ref 1

Edinburgh–Kraków partnership
ref 1

Jagiellonian University
ref 1

St Lazarus Hospice in
ref 1

Kraków Hejna bugle call
ref 1

Kukiel, General Marian
ref 1

Lamb, Pascale
ref 1

Lavis, Adam
ref 1

Lenin, Vladimir I
ref 1

Lenino, first battle at (1943)
ref 1

Lithgow, William
ref 1

Lithuania
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5

Little, Jim
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

KOSB Colour Sergeant
ref 1

mistrust of (Labour) politicians
ref 1

respect for Polish soldiers
ref 1

Wojtek’s relationship with
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

Lockerbie, Trinity Church in
ref 1

Lothian and Border Horse
ref 1

Loudon, Major General Euan
ref 1

Lwów
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

Lwów Rifles Battalion
ref 1
,
ref 2

MacInnes, Marc
ref 1

Maczek, General Stanislaw
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4

Madden, Colonel (Black Watch at Monte Cassino)
ref 1

Mansoor, Kat
ref 1

Marie Curie Cancer Care
ref 1

Mexico
ref 1

Michael the Bear
ref 1

Mickiewicz, Adam
ref 1
,
ref 2

Middle East, dancing bears in
ref 1

Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw
ref 1
,
ref 2

military research
ref 1

Moffat
ref 1

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
ref 1
,
ref 2

Moniaive
ref 1

Monte Cassino
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

assaults on
ref 1

battle for
ref 1

Death Valley
ref 1

final battle for
ref 1

impregnability of
ref 1

maelstrom of
ref 1

munitioning guns at
ref 1

shelling at
ref 1

strategic goals of battle for
ref 1

threat to advancing Allies
ref 1

turning point in Allied fortunes
ref 1

victory at
ref 1

Montrose
ref 1

mules in war
ref 1

Murrays of Elibank
ref 1

Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego
ref 1

Napoleon Bonaparte
ref 1
,
ref 2

National Homing Union
ref 1

Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI)
ref 1

Nazi Todt Organizsation
ref 1

New Zealand
ref 1

Nivkh clan in Russia
ref 1

NKVD (Soviet secret police)
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4

Normandy landings and fighting in
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4

Norway

inconclusive campaign in (1940)
ref 1

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