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Józef Bartosik Iustinus Tim Avery

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. J zef Czeslaw Bartosik, CB, DSC (July 20, 1917 - January 14, 2008) was a Polish Naval officer, born in Topola Wielka near Ostr w Wielkopolski, who served in Polish destroyers during World War II, under British naval command. Shortly after World War II he joined the British Royal Navy and advanced to the rank of rear admiral, before his retirement in 1969. He died in England in January 2008. In 1935, at the age of 18, he joined the Naval officer cadet school in Toru . He graduated in 1938 and in 1939 he was the first watch officer in the cadet schooner ORP Iskra. During the latter half of 1939, he led the wooden sailing ship on a voyage through the Mediterranean and into Southern Atlantic waters. On learning of the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi forces, Iskra returned from the Atlantic and left two crew members with the ship in Morocco. Along with the rest of Iskra's crew, Bartosik boarded a French ship and departed for France, where after deliberations between the French Navy's War Department and free Polish forces, he reported as a member of the reserve officer group at the ship-base ORP Gdynia in Great Britain.