I think one ship used to transport both French and Polish airmen was called the Arundle Star.

Ian, I suppose you mean the “Arandora Star” that sailed from St-Jean-de-Luz to England in late June.

I would like to know the name of a ship who transported the polish pilots from the ‘centre d’entrainement de Montpellier’ from Bordeaux to Plymouth where she arrived the 20/6/1940

Ships that evacuated Polish military personnel (including airmen from various outfits) from Bordeaux included three Polish ones: s/s “Chorzow” (departing 18/6/40), s/s “Tczew” (19/6/40) and s/s “Kmicic” (21/6/40, so definitely not your type). Some Polish personnel was also evacuated by a Czech (!) ship, but I don’t have the name or date.

However:
1) AFAIK Polish pilots trained at Montpellier had been posted in sections to various French units before the Germans attacked in the West, and I don’t think there was any particular Montpellier-related group that boarded a ship at Bordeaux.
2) Polish airmen were also evacuated from a number of other French ports.

The participation of Polish airmen in the Battle of France (including the evacuation) is described in substantial detail in a huge volume by Bartlomiej Belcarz (not unknown to some members of this forum) published some time ago in Polish, and due to be published in French.

I hope to post some photo’s of my visit on here

DufordHawk working on it yesterday.

Another 2 Whitley’s were lost on the same evening one from 58 Sqn, T4145

P/o R McC Carrapiett
Sgt A J White
P/O C F Jones
Sgt A R Mason – POW
Sgt A C Wroath

Shot down by night fighter from 4./NJG1 and crashed 00.27 at Waterhizen (Groningen)

58 Sqn codes were GE at the time, so this one seems to fit.

Jokes aside. It’s a Whitley, isn’t it?

L1066 was sold to Poland during summer 1939, despatched by sea, and diverted to Turkey after Poland was overrun by the Germans in September.
The association of Turkish and RAF HK… numbers with original British serials is speculative.

Both Elwyn’s and Dez’s pictures are one and the same type. It is the Antonov AN-28 ‘Cash’.

They are the same, but they are both the M-28, a rather extensive development of the An-28 built in Poland. The civil version (the one with US certificate) is marketed as “Skytruck”, while the military version for the Polish Air Force and Navy is the “Bryza”. One of the latter has become quite well known a little while ago in UK, when it masqueraded for a Wellington of no. 304 (Polish) Sqn. The 30 Eskadra that uses them is heir to 304 Sqn’s traditions.

The Czechs have a very similar small turboprop transport of their own, called Turbolet, but it has single fin and rudder.