Winfield camp, Sunwick farm as it is today.- Photos courtesy of Aileen Orr

The children of Hutton are also budding artists, here’s this years entry at Hutton flower show by Ethan Douglas aged 10. 2/8/9

Latest model with Peter Prendys alongside. 3/6/08

This is it final mould, the one for the committee 14/6/08

Surrounded by teddies at the opening of new community garden dedicated to him in Leith on rememberance sunday 2008.

The Project was organised by Leith Police in Edinburgh as a dedicated place for the Polish and Scottish community in Leith can sit and enjoy.It has two flag poles for the Scottish Saltire and Polish flag.A copy of the maquette will eventually sit there, so gradually, we are getting there!

The teddies were sent to Edinburgh Sick Kids in memory of Wojtek and he was blessed by local Polish priest and best of all a friend of Peter and the bear also attended, and was very moved when he saw the dedication.

The Scottish Parliament hosted a Polish/Scottish evening on the 25/3/9., celebrating the close union Scotland has had with Poland. Particularly with the Polish soldiers and Voytek.

From e-mails

Wojtek was housed on our farm in Southern Scotland, I can actually see the remains of his shelter from my window here. If your father came to Scotland he would have stayed here. Some of the troops stayed on in the village and married local girls, some are still alive. Wojtek is now being rediscovered in our village and we are putting a memorial up for him when we build our new village hall. The children are being taught about his life, and how he fought the war and eventually died in Scotland.

Aileen Orr

 The photo left to right- Suzanne Rigg(curator Biggar Museum), Janek Lasocki(grandson to the author of the Soldier Bear), Ellen Baczor(my mother), Aileen Orr(Voytek’s fund raiser), Vic Baczor(runs wojtekthebear website)