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Ron Jeffery, the Glossary

Ronald Clarence Jeffery (6 September 1917 – 24 September 2002), also Józef Kawala, Stanisław Jasiński, Sporn and Botkin, was an English soldier and an agent of British and Polish intelligence during World War II.^[1]

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English people of New Zealand descent
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment soldiers
Recipients of the Armia Krajowa Cross
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1987 New Zealand general election

Łódź

Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre.

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Battle of France

The Battle of France (bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of France, that notably introduced tactics that are still used.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Boris Smyslovsky

Boris Alexeyevich Smyslovsky (Борис Алексеевич Смысловский; 3 December 1897 – 5 September 1988), also known under the pseudonyms Hauptmann von Regenau and (later) Arthur Holmston (Артур Хольмстон), was a Russian-Finnish general, émigré and anti-communist.

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British intelligence agencies

The Government of the United Kingdom maintains several intelligence agencies that deal with secret intelligence.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.

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Cambridge Five

The Cambridge Five was a ring of spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the Cold War and was active from the 1930s until at least the early 1950s.

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Cross of the Home Army

The Cross of the Home Army (Krzyż Armii Krajowej) is a Polish military decoration that was introduced by General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski on 1 August 1966 to commemorate the efforts of the soldiers of the Polish Secret State between 1939 and 1945.

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Cross of Valour (Poland)

The Cross of Valour (Krzyż Walecznych) is a Polish military decoration. Ron Jeffery and Cross of Valour (Poland) are Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland).

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Doullens

Doullens (Dourlin; former Dorland) is a commune in the Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Gestapo

The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (2 October 1914 – 20 January 2005) was a Polish journalist, writer, politician, social worker and patriot. Ron Jeffery and Jan Nowak-Jeziorański are Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland).

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Katyn massacre

The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 defenceless Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD (the Soviet secret police), at Stalin's order in April and May 1940.

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Kedyw

Kedyw (partial acronym of Kierownictwo Dywersji ("Directorate of Sabotage") was a Polish World War II Home Army unit that conducted active and passive sabotage, propaganda and armed operations against Nazi German forces and collaborators.

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Kent

Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.

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Kim Philby

Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 191211 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a spy for the Soviet Union. Ron Jeffery and Kim Philby are world War II spies for the United Kingdom.

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Lance corporal

Lance corporal is a military rank, used by many English-speaking armed forces worldwide, and also by some police forces and other uniformed organisations.

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Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa (born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (Operating name for The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua Me Ngā Taonga Kōrero.) is an archive that was launched on 31 July 2014, following the completion of a three-year process whereby the New Zealand Film Archive "absorbed" the collections and operations of the RNZ Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero in 2012 and the Television New Zealand Archive in 2014.

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Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)

The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945.

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Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

The Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (Order Zasługi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is a Polish order of merit created in 1974, awarded to persons who have rendered great service to Poland.

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Ostrzeszów

Ostrzeszów (Schildberg) is a town in south-central Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Polish resistance movement in World War II

In Poland, the resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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President of Poland

The president of Poland (Prezydent RP), officially the president of the Republic of Poland (Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the head of state of the Republic of Poland.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army based in the county of Kent in existence from 1881 to 1961.

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Szubin

Szubin is a town in Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, located southwest of Bydgoszcz.

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Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski

Generał Tadeusz Komorowski (1 June 1895 – 24 August 1966), better known by the name Bór-Komorowski (after one of his wartime code-names: Bór – "The Forest") was a Polish military leader. Ron Jeffery and Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski are Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland).

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Jeffery

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English people of New Zealand descent

Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment soldiers

Recipients of the Armia Krajowa Cross

Unsuccessful candidates in the 1987 New Zealand general election

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