Similarly I think the SWO at Gaydon 1966, when Nav' School was there, was a former pilot of "Continental Irish" extraction or Polish to younger readers.
Sorry for the rather slow response to your post
Ian16th (18 months) but I have just been reading back through this revived thread.
His name was Mr Matusjek (sp?) - I remember him well because I bought a moped from off him for a tenner so that my wife wouldnt have to get the bus from Loxley to Stratford for her nursing job. She rode it up and down the road precisely once and said she would stick to the bus. Left it behind when I moved on to Strad, so that worked out about £1 a minute!