[Portrait of Mietek Drelich displaying his old Polish Army uniform] [picture] / Barry York
- Bib ID:
- 2651748
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- York, Barry, 1951-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 2001
- 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; 18.7 x 27.2 cm.
- Series:
- Polish Australians oral history project.
- Summary:
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Mietek Drelich was interviewed and photographed by Barry York for the Polish Australian Oral History Project at Wollongong, N.S.W. on June 2001.
- Biography/History:
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Mietek Drelich was born in Debina, near Lubin, in 1918 and emigrated to Australia in 1947. He was awarded the Cross of Valour after the siege of Tobruk by the Polish Army in which he served during World War II. He spent six years in Tasmania working in the Hydro-Electric Comission's construction villages.
- Notes:
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- Condition: good.
- Title supplied by cataloguer.
- Part of collection: Polish Australians oral history project.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-146182081
- Related Material:
- Related material: Interview with Mietek Drelich [sound recording] ; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection ORAL TRC 4725.
- Subject:
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Polish Australians oral history project, portraits of interviewees.
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2001
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