'My Father Jan - A Memoir of Polish Life, Family and War, Jan Walis'

The autobiography of Jan Walis, a Polish soldier who settled in Scotland after the Second World War. Edited by his daughter, Christine Bell

Jan Walis was a Polish soldier who settled in Scotland after the Second World War. He returned to his roots in farming, founding an agricultural college in Findo Gask in the late 1940s before retiring to Montrose, where he died.

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Christine Bell, daughter of Jan Walis's daughter

Jan Walis was a Polish soldier who settled in Scotland after the Second World War. He returned to his roots in farming, founding an agricultural college in Findo Gask in the late 1940s before retiring to Montrose, where he died.

Description compiled by Anna Olafsson, Temporary Assistant, January 2018

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MS 413