PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Stanislau Czekaj survived the Second World War in Poland against brutal odds, from the Nazi occupation in 1939 to the Iron Curtain of communism dividing Europe six years later. “Stan’s” gallantry as a Polish patriot from beginning to end of the global conflict before escaping Soviet rule is still paying a dividend for British rugby more than 30 years after his death in Cardiff.
The dawning of a new season finds one of his antecedents embarking on a new role as a development officer employed by the Welsh Rugby Union at Cardiff High School. The old r...