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The Grave of a Young Patriot

We do not know his date of birth, though the anniversary is probably about now, because someone (probably a relation) has, in accordance with Polish custom, put flowers at the foot of his grave.

We know that he was a Boy Scout, a soldier of the "Grey Ranks" in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and that he died on the eleventh of December 1945 aged 15, but whether from wounds sustained in the street battles, or from illness is not recorded on his tombstone.

Had he lived he would now be 84, and a devoted father, and grandfather.

Thousands of young Warsavians died at the hands of the German Army. Bach who destroyed Warsaw and so many lives, received a shortish gaol sentence.