WW2 Polish Set of Documents Wołkowicki Stanisław 10PSK, Armored Trains

A set of documents after Stanisław Wołkowicki, an officer of the Polish Army in France, then in Great Britain, where he was in the Armored Trains, 10th Mounted Rifle Regiment and 1st Anti-Tank Regiment (Artillery). After the war, he became an artist and married Diane Napier, a British actress and commander of FANY units in the Polish Armed Forces.

 The set consists of:

• Personal Identification Card of the Polish Army in France (1940)
• Officer’s Salary Booklet, November 15, 1940 (Armored Train No. 5).
• Officer’s Salary Booklet, June 1, 1947 (10th Mounted Rifle Regiment/1st Anti-Tank Regiment)
• Officer’s Ration Card 1946
• British Identity Card 1949
• British Travel Document 1959
• Death Certificate from 1965

Diana Napier, also known as Diane Tauber, Diane Mulcaster and Diana (Alice Mary) Wołkowicka, born 1905, died 1982, British film star of the 1930s who appeared in numerous films.

In April 1940, she enlisted in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. After completing her basic training, she was assigned to an Ambulance Unit in Scotland, where she looked after Polish soldiers and eventually became an NCO within a Polish unit. Later, she joined the Polish Welfare Unit in London. In early 1945, she traveled to Holland with the Red Cross to assist Polish soldiers fleeing Germany. Following VE Day, she relocated to Meppen in Germany, where she was highly commended by General Klemens Rudnicki for her dedicated service to Polish servicemen.

After the death of her second husband (Richard Tauber) in 1948, she married a Polish artist and officer of the 10th Mounted Rifle Regiment, Stanisław Wołkowicki, whom she met during the war. They married in 1953, and were together until his death in 1965. They were buried together in the Church of St Michael and All Angels in Sunningdale.