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RAF Spitfire Pilot and instructor F/L Olgierd TS Sobiecki RAF P-0549 born in Kartuzy, Poland on 22 December 1917 son of "Emil" Nestor Sobiecki (first Starost Kartuzy) and Wanda "Cyryla" Grosman. Graduated Deblin "School of Eaglets" 13th Promotion No. 73 in June 1939. Promoted to Lieutenant and flew with PAF during the first two months of German attack. Evacuated from Poland in October 1939 with fellow pilots via Romania to Beirut, Lebanon to Malta, then Marseilles, France where they went north in France where he was stationed in Chateauroux, France flying "hunting formation" until 14 June 1940.
The Polish pilots were evacuated south to Gibraltar and were transported to England on a British Transport Ship where Olgierd joined the RAF. Training took place in Grangemouth, Falkirk, Scotland where he trained on damaged and salvaged Spitfires from the Battle of Britain and graduated from 58 O.T.U. No. 14 Course.
Assigned to RAF Polish 308 (December 1941) - RAF Polish 303 - RAAF Australian 453 and RAF Polish 306. In December 1942 he was assigned to the RAF No. 25 (Polish) E.P.T.S. Hucknall, where he trained pilots on the Spitfire until June of 1945 when he was transferred to the RAF 16 (Polish) S.F.T.S. He married in England and went to Canada as part of the Polish Resettlement Act of 1947 where he raised his family. Olgierd Sobiecki died in Delta, British Columbia Canada on 24 October 2002.
