Frank Dynowski

Alias Frank Edward, Franciszek
Russian spelling Франк (Франтишек) Дыновский
Born 19.05.1894
Place Kiev, Ukraine
Ethnic origin Polish
Religion Roman Catholic
Father Josef Dynowsky, president of Barristers' committee
Mother Maria Tyszkiewich
Family

Wife Mary Dynowski (née Hue), married 1918 in France; wife Lissi-Henriette Dynowski (née Lohrmann), married 1948

Residence before arrival at Australia Served in Russian field artillery
Arrived at Australia from Antwerp, Germany
on 27.04.1914
per Gneisenau
disembarked at Sydney
Residence before enlistment Bugaldie via Coonabarabran, NSW
Occupation 1916 labourer, 1950 engineer, 1952 waiter
Naturalisation 1952
Residence after the war in 1919 intended to live in Havre; Poland 1919-1944, took part in Warsaw insurrection in 1944; Germany in 1944-1950 (served in Polish forces); arrived at Australia on 26.09.1950, lived in Hobart
Died 12.04.1970, Hobart, Tasmania

Service #1

Service number 1694
Enlisted 22.01.1916
Place of enlistment Gulgong NSW
Unit 45th Battalion
Rank Private, Corporal, Acting Sergeant
Place Western Front, 1916-1919
Discharged 27.07.1919 in London

Materials

Blog article

Russian

English

Newspaper articles

First A.I.F. Man Returns as Migrant. - Age, 26 September 1950, p. 2.

From Falling stars: The story of Anzacs from Ukraine:

Meanwhile in war-torn Europe, Ukraine, and Russia, the story of our Anzacs continued. One of them was Frank Dynowski, who came from a cultured Polish family in Kyiv and worked in outback New South Wales as an agricultural labourer. He married while serving in the AIF and stayed in France. Later he moved to Poland and, according to the Age, during the Second World War joined the Polish army with the rank of major, 'was taken prisoner by the Russians, escaped, and then helped organise the Polish underground movement'. He took part in the 1944 Warsaw Rising, in which 'all my effects as well as the army documents were destroyed', he wrote when applying for replacements. Captured by the Germans, he was kept as a prisoner of war in a camp in Lubeck and after the war served in the Polish forces in Germany. In 1950 he returned to Australia in the wave of displaced persons. By that time he had trained as an engineer, but on settling in Hobart he had to turn again to waiting tables.

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