One Brave Australian

Flight Lieutenant Alan Hammet DFM 7 October 1943

Flight Lieutenant Alan Hammet DFM 7 October 1943 Source: REPRODUCED COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL

Australian wireless air-gunner, Alan Hammet was shot down over Cracow, Poland on 16 August 1944. He joined the Polish Home Army, survived and later married one of his fellow resistance fighters, Jadwiga Wielowiejska. His story is part of the exibition 'Resistance -Australians and the European Underground 1939–45' shown in ' Shrine of Remembrance' in Melbourne.


Mural przy ul. Dąbrowskiego 14 w Krakowie poświęcony Liberatorowi Allana Hunter Hammeta
Mural przy ul. Dąbrowskiego 14 w Krakowie poświęcony Liberatorowi Allana Hunter Hammeta Source: 'War Remembrance Melbourne'
Michael Hammet, syn Allana Hunter Hammet’a  przy jego eksponatach i Ks Tadeusz Rostworowski.
Michael Hammet, syn Allana Hunter Hammet’a przy jego eksponatach i Ks Tadeusz Rostworowski. Source: Andrzej Balcerzak

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