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MECH,
Wladyslaw
In his 100th year. Veteran of First and Second World Wars, wounded
at age 16 at the Battle of Warsaw in 1920. Decorated by the Polish
Government with 1918-21 Military Cross, Poland to her Defender
Medal, Long Service Medal, 10th Anniversary Medal, Silver Cross
of Merit. During Second World War served with the Polish Forces
Carpathian Brigade under British command and took part in actions
at El Alamein, Fortress Tobruk, Monte Cassino, Bololgna and Ancona.
Awarded Cross of Merit with Swords, Monte Cassino Cross, Tobruk
Emblem, the 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, the 1939-1945
War Medal and the Defence Medal. In 2001 the Polish Government
awarded him a special medal Sursum Corda #16. He was born on
October 14, 1903 in Poland,
son of a Reeve in Potok Wielki. He
was predeceased by mother Maria
TOMALA, father Thomas, brothers:
Piotr, Ludwik, Jan, sisters: Stanislawa, Karolina, Natalka, Julia
and by his wife
Julia née
FUSZARA in 1974. He emigrated to Canada
with wife Julia and son Zdzislaw in 1947. During his 20 years
with the Scarborough Board of Education he was active in the
Polish Combatants Association and a founding Board Member of
Wawel Villa Senior Citizens Centre where he resided until his
death. He will be remembered for his constant involvement at
the Villa where he organized chapel and social activities, ran
arts and crafts, poetry readings and other cultural events. Lover
of outdoors, he planted and maintained summer and winter gardens
while keeping his characteristic dry humour. He was loving and
proud of his son Zdzislaw Romuald, M.D., Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians, Q.J.M., his daughter-in-law Lilli, B.A.
Associate, Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto (Toronto),
his grand_sons Major Konrad R.W., Royal Military College '82,
B.A. B.Eng., M.B.A., Canadian Forces Decoration and Captain André
Z.I., Royal Military College '84, B.Eng, M.B.A., both of whom
followed the family artillery tradition dating to Napoleonic
times, granddaughter Danuta
WYANT, B.Sc. Toronto. He will be greatly
missed by Kim
BREAKELL-
MECH, wife of Konrad, Blaise S.
WYANT,
Vice President, Financial Advisor, Wood Gundy, husband of Danuta
and by great-grandchildren Anders
MECH of Vancouver, Armand and
Eugene MECH of Mississauga and Faith and Hilary
WYANT of Toronto
who will miss visiting and jumping on him.His leadership and
love of the countries he served will be long remembered. Friends
may call at the Turner and Porter ''Peel'' Chapel, 2180 Hurontario
Street, Mississauga (Hwy. 10North of Queen Elizabeth Way), from
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Sunday. Funeral Mass will be held on Monday,
February 17, 2003, at St. Maximilian Kolbe Church, Mississauga,
at 10 a.m. Interment Pine Hills Cemetery.
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