Battle of Britain funeral

3rd December 2011

Tadeusz Sawicz will be remembered for his brave acts during WWII

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This week saw the funeral of Tadeusz Sawicz, the last surviving Polish Battle of Britain fighter pilot who passed away on October 19, aged 97.

There were a number of ceremonies held, with the final one taking place at Warsaw’s Powazki Military Cemetery which was attended by members of the pilot’s family and Deputy Defence Minister Czeslaw Mroczek.

According to Fakt, the ashes of Mr Sawicz, who was born in Warsaw, were flown over from Canada where he had been living in a residential nursing home in the province of Ontario.

The brave pilot will be best remembered for flying a Hurricane in the Battle of Britain, where he reportedly shot down three enemy aircraft and damaged four more.

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