A former Tendring councillor has been given the freedom of Warsaw for fighting to defend it during the Second World War.
Tadeusz Staigl, 86, of Holland Road, Clacton, was in London for a ceremony where he received a medal and the freedom of the Polish capital entitling him to free travel in the city for life.
Mr Staigl was a Polish soldier with 5th Field Artillery Regiment in Warsaw when the Germans attempted to take the city in 1939.
He was later deported to the former USSR in 1940 and joined the Polish armed forces in 1941, coming under British command in 1942.
Mr Staigl continued to serve in Russia, Iran, Iraq, Italy and Palestine before finally being discharged in 1948.
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