A 102-year-old veteran believed to be the last surviving member of a Polish army division formed in Scotland during the Second World War has attended a mass in Edinburgh.

Eugeniusz Niedzielski, 102, attended St Ninian and St Triduana Church in Restalrig on Sunday as part of a visit to Scotland organised by the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, writes STV News.

The veteran arrived at the church in a London black cab, and was met by members of a Polish scout group who had travelled to the capital to renovate Polish gravestones.

Mr Niedzielski posed for photographs and chatted to various members of the Polish community in the church hall before attending the mass.

Speaking with the PA Media news agency after mass, the veteran said: “After 84 years I’ve come to Scotland, to visit places, and (the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans) takes me all round the places.

“What I’ve seen so far, I’ve enjoyed it, I’ve seen what I wanted.

“It brings memories back to me: the places, the monuments and everything.”

Mr Niedzielski was born in Poland, and was deported to a work camp in September 1939 by the Russians.

Released in 1942, Mr Niedzielski then travelled to the UK where he joined the new Polish army in Duns, in the Borders, and placed under British command.

He fought on the western front in 1944,  before moving on to the Dutch Border and helping liberate the city of Breda as part of Operation Pheasant.

After the war, in 1947, Mr Niedzielski came to the UK and enlisted in the Polish resettlement corps, and he remained in England and lives near London to this day.

Mr Niedzielski was also asked why, 80 years on, it was still important that we continue to remember the events of the Second World War.

“Because there’s no one to tell the tales of what’s been going on in the last war, as a soldier’s experience and everything,” he said.

“I’m still alive, 102, and probably I’ll be missed when I go,” he added with a smile.