her order to scatter, which made them far less easy targets for snipers than other passengers who formed huddles. She decided to move to the U.K. When she reached the UK, the Girl Guides Association (now Girlguiding UK) awarded her their Bronze Cross for Gallantry. She set up a Polish orphanage, and worked in the Polish Scout organization. She was also organising food transport for children in Warsaw. After WWII Between 1948-60 Małkowska was leading the Polish Children's Home in Hawson Court in Buckfastleigh, Devon. She moved to Poland in 1961, first living in Wrocław ul. Nowa 8 in the former house of Corps Borussia Breslau and then in Zakopane. She was given the Honour Medal of Friend of Children. She died in 1979 aged 91, on the 60th anniversary of her husband's death, and she was buried with him in Zakopane. Over their grave there is a granite monument of the founders of Polish Scouting. External links CICG References 1888 births 1979 deaths People from Kraków County Scouting pioneers Polish Scouts and Guides Polish Rifle Squads members Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta Recipients of the Cross of Independence Lviv Conservatory alumni