The small village of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Auchtertool" class="extiw" title="w:en:Auchtertool">Auchtertool</a> in Fife, Scotland, close to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Kircaldy" class="extiw" title="w:en:Kircaldy">Kircaldy</a>, provided a military staging camp for newly arrived Polish Forces before their assignments to more permanent camps.  Andrzej Grodyński  (second from left in photograph with four comrades whose signatures appear on the reverse dated 12 July 1942) underwent  introductory military training in nearby <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:St_Andrews" class="extiw" title="w:en:St Andrews">St Andrews</a> before being assigned to the Polish Air Force and the RAF Transition Station in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Blackpool" class="extiw" title="w:en:Blackpool">Blackpool</a>, England.  On completion of his training, Andrzej joined 306 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Toru%C5%84" class="extiw" title="w:en:Toruń">Toruń</a> Combat Squadron in June 1944 as a fighter pilot and was stationed at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Brenzett" class="extiw" title="w:en:Brenzett">Brenzett</a> airbase, near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Brighton" class="extiw" title="w:en:Brighton">Brighton</a> in Kent.<br><span style="color:blue;"><i>The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Scotch_Mist/People" title="User:Scotch Mist/People">Scotch Mist Gallery</a> contains photographs of historic buildings, monuments, memorials and people of Poland.</i></span>
scanned by photograph owner <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Scotch_Mist" title="User:Scotch Mist">Stanisław Grodyński</a>