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Lecture of
Brig-Gen. (ret.) Robert
Williams on June 20,
2024 in Kingston, ON
Poland Knows Only
Too Well
the Price of
Freedom
Dear Members and Friends
of the Oskar Halecki
Institute in Canada,
The
Oskar Halecki Institute
in Canada obtained an
announcement of an
interesting
lecture
by Dr.
Robert S. Williams, OMM,
MSM and Bar, CD,
Brigadier-General
(Ret'd)
on
Thursday 20 June 2024 at
7 pm.
The
location is Fort
Frontenac, Kingston,
Ontario.
The
Royal Kingston United
Services Institute
(RKUSI) organizes
this lecture.
The RKUSI
is an ex-military,
ex-RCMP, and other
security veterans
organization.
Guests are welcome.
Title of
Lecture: Poland
Knows Only Too Well
the Price of
Freedom.
This will
be one one-hour lecture,
followed by questions,
from 1919 to today, in
English. This will cover
past and current events,
including Polish
contribution
to NATO,
Territorial Defense Force
increases etc.
Please
note that the LasSalle
Causeway (linking RMC to
Kingston) is under repair,
so a detour is
required.
GPS/Google
maps can help.
Alexander
M. Jablonski, Ph.D.,
P.Eng.
President
OHI
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Dr Robert S. Williams, OMM, MSM and
bar, CD
Brigadier-General
(ret’d)
Military service
(1977-2014)
Robert served as an officer
in the Canadian Army after
graduating from Royal
Roads/Royal Military College
with a degree in Electrical
Engineering. While serving
in the military he was
deployed on overseas
operations to Croatia as
part of a United Nations
mission (UNPROFOR), several
times to Bosnia with NATO
(IFOR and SFOR), and also to
Kabul, Afghanistan as part
of the International
Security Assistance Force
(ISAF) Headquarters in 2004.
He worked with Polish armed
forces on all of these
overseas missions.
While a student at Canadian
Forces College in Toronto in
2002/2003, he authored a
major paper entitled: Prisoner
of War Status for Polish
Home Army (Armia
Krajowa – AK) personnel in
World War II.
The paper, which included
interviews with a number of
veterans, was dedicated to
all AK veterans, whose story
is virtually unknown in the
West.
Owing to his linguistic
ability in Slavic languages
he has travelled extensively
in Eastern and Central
Europe including
participating as a
interpreter in the Canadian
military delivery of Red
Cross supplies to parts of
the former Soviet Union. He
has also participated on a
number of Arms Control
Inspections.
His doctoral dissertation in
history (Queen’s University
in Kingston) focused on the
experience of the 1st Polish
Armoured Division under
Canadian command in
Northwest Europe in late
1944 and the challenges in
coalition operations
resulting from language and
cultural differences. He
currently teaches graduate
courses in War Studies as a
sessional instructor at the
Royal Military College of
Canada (RMC) as well as
tutoring and mentoring a
number of the next
generation of military
leadership.
Major Awards (Canadian/International)
Meritorious Service Medal
(MSM) for service support
when deployed in Afghanistan
in 2004, awarded in 2006.
Bar to Meritorious Service
Medal (MSM and bar) awarded
in 2014.
Order of Military Merit
(OMM) for career work,
gazetted in 2009.
Poland (PL) Polish Army
Medal (Gold) Zloty Medal
Wojska Polskiego, awarded in
August 2020.
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