Ladislav Pospíšil (1910–1994), a native of Kutná Hora, moved with his parents to Bulgaria (1912). He graduated from the French Lyceum in Plovdiv, then studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague. In the war year of 1939, he left for Palestine via Romania and Greece. He joined the Czechoslovak unit in the Middle East and shared its fate, including the battles near Tobruk. Until the end of the war, he served as an officer under British command, only to find himself in the problematic position of veterans of Western armies in 1948. His autobiography Ve znameni Halleyovy comety (1996) draws on a preserved war diary and photographs exposed with a Kodak-Duo camera.