It was on his journey to Africa that he and his fellow soldiers met Wojtek the bear at a railway station in Iran.
Angela said: There was a little boy sitting at the station with a little brown bear, its mother had been shot, so the little boy had tried to rescue it. The men asked the general if they could adopt the bear as a mascot, and he agreed, so the soldiers got together some chocolate, money and whatever they could get together to give the boy, and took the bear.
Bazyl s brother Walter, who served alongside him, with Private Wojtek.