“That teddy bear was given to me for my first birthday and I still have it. It didn't have a name, just Teddy. ”
Interview with Anna Sadura Healey
September 29, 2012
Anna Sadura Healey shows Jo Stanbridge a photo of herself from 1959, aged 2, with her teddy bear on the back steps of her home at 290 William Street.
Anna's father Jozef Sadura, born in Poland in 1917, was in the Polish air force as war broke out in 1939 (his unit is not known). In 1939-1940 he left Poland, eventually making his way to England, where he joined one of the first “Polish” squadrons of the RAF. He was in squadron 300 and flew with that squadron, it is thought, from 1940 until the end of the war. He is listed in the duty roster BH-Z (PD383) for the 1945 raid on Berchtesgaden as a navigator. He was awarded various medals, including Poland's highest military honour, the Virtuti Militari, although it is not known what he did to earn it.