Attachment to the First Canadian Army In the Normandy section it says The unit was attached to the First Canadian Army This may have been done to help in communication as the vast majority of Poles did not speak English when they arrived in UK from 1940 onwards So does this mean that 1 they wanted the Poles subordinated to an English speaking unit for command and control purposes rather than operating independently or that 2 there were sufficient numbers of Polish language speakers in the Canadian Army to act as translators There s no reference linked to this assertion 192 0 158 233