“LITTLE MOTHER.”
POLISH AIRMEN'S FRIEND. LONDON, Dee. 15. Once a premiere ballerina who appeared with Pavlova in all the capitals of Europe, a woman, living quietly at Slinfold, near Horsham, Sussex, has become the “Little Mother” of the Polish airmen in the R.A.E. When the Polish hoys fly off to battle, many leave a last message for their loved ones in Poland—just “in case.” They leave it in the care of- their “Little Mother.”
Slinfold knows the Little Mother as plain Mrs Stevens,- but she was the daughter of a Polish nobleman—Sonja von Wojciclvowska. In. the last war she married a British “Tommy.”
When Polish refugees fled to England in this war she was first to offer them hospitality, and they came to love betas their Little Mother.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 87, 23 January 1942, Page 3
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