Colonel Tadeusz Majewski
10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade (Poland)

Poland did not capitulate after the fall of France, and the Poles by various stages crossed to Great Britain, that last fortress of freedom, so that finally, together with the forces of the great British Empire, they might match themselves against those of our enemies.

(Quoted in Blairgowrie Advertiser and East Perthshire News-Review, 3 Apr 1942, 6)

Born on 26 August 1899 in Lwów, Poland, Tadeusz Adam Feliks Majewski served in the Polish Legions before being conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Italian Front in 1918. At the end of the First World War, he joined the Blue Army formed by Polish soldiers in France. He advanced in the Polish Army through the interwar years, rising to lieutenant-colonel by March 1939. Six months later, he escaped to France following the invasion and occupation of Poland.

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