The 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, also commonly known as Christmas Tree Division due to the characteristic emblem of a cedar of Lebanon superimposed upon the Polish flag, was an infantry division of
Mr Alfred Zelke, the last surviving member of the 3rd DSK camp at Riddlesworth, Norfolk, for the unveiling of the memorial, and his daughter Anna in 2018.
This Divisional badge is called Znak Pamiatkow and was instituted for soldiers of the 3rd DSK in 1 December 1945 and distributed in 1946 to troops who had fought with the Division.
Plaque at the site of the former Polish camp, Hodgemoor Woods, Buckinghamshire.
Gen Stanislaw Kopanski
Polish Independent Carpathian Brigade was a Polish military unit formed in 1940 in French Syria composed of Polish soldiers exiled after the invasion of Poland in 1939 as part of the Polish Army in Fr
3rd Carpathian Rifle Division (Poland)
…flag, was an infantry division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West that fought during World War II on the Italian Front. It was formed in 1942 of the Polish Independent Carpathian Brigade and of forces of Lieutenant General Władysław Anders' Polish 2nd Corps evacuated from the Soviet Union. The division participated in the North African…
Upload of Polish Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade in Alexandria for its trip to Tobruk