The Association paid the full legal costs of a group of six parents of children at state schools in Tameside who intervened in a legal action by the Secretary of State for Education and Science who sought to force the local authority to adopt a system of comprehensive education . Opposition to communism was one of the Association 's key points and for his work Gouriet was awarded the Polish Gold Cross of Merit by the Polish government-in-exile in London . He was the sole British Guard of Honour at the unveiling of the memorial to the Katyn massacre in Gunnersbury , west London , in September 1976
Katyn massacre
Katyn massacre
John Gouriet