Hope they manage to raise the money. "A MODEL has been unveiled of a proposed statue to honour a wartime Polish general who worked in the Capital as a barman while in exile. So revered was Stanislaw Maczek that visiting former troops would salute him behind the bar of the Learmonth Hotel, to the bemusement of other patrons. Campaigners trying to raise £75,000 for a permanent memorial in The Meadows to the general revealed the maquette this week. Dariusz Adler, Polish Consul General in Edinburgh, said: “Today is a great day for Polish people and the people of Scotland. “It is extremely important to see General Maczek commemorated. He was a hero and a father figure for many Polish soldiers who fought with him during the Second World War for our freedom and yours." The general was Commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division and appointed by Winston Churchill to defend Scotland’s east coast from potential invasion. He played a key role in the Battle of Normandy, preventing the retreat of thousands of German soldiers and liberating parts of France, Belgium and Holland with his men." http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...h-ww2-general-who-worked-in-capital-1-4389464 Known to his soldiers as “Baca”, he took up bar work after being refused a soldier’s pension and unable to return to his communist homeland.
Baca means "shepherd". The Scotsman maybe shouldn't use foreign words without explanation. Maczek was an experienced officer even before the Battle of Normandy. He was Commander of a mobile, fast-reaction unit during the Polish-Soviet war, of a motorized brigade during the September campaign, and then of an armored brigade during the 1940 invasion of France.
