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Monday, December 26, 2022

Zbigniew Leon Mieczkowskim 1922-2022

Zbigniew Leon Mieczkowski died 19 December, 2022, aged 100.

He was one of the last Polish veterans living in Britain who fought alongside the Allies in the Second World War.

He was born 22 June, 1922, a Polish veteran of the Second World War and active member of the Polish diaspora in the UK. The only son of Stefan Mieczkowski de Zagloba vel Zagroba, of Dzierzanowo, Poland, he married 26 July, 1965, the Hon Caroline Sarah Aline Grenfell (1933-2019), second daughter of the 2nd Baron Grenfell (1905-1976), and his 1st wife the former Elizabeth Sarah Polk Shaugnessy (1913-2015), scion of the Barons Shaughnessy, by whom he had issue, a son, Stefan, and a daughter, Helena.

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