List of Polish war cemeteries

The following is an incomplete list of national war cemeteries of Polish soldiers around the world. Unless stated otherwise, the cemeteries include the graves of the World War II veterans.

Belgium

France

Germany

Iran

Iraq
  • Khanaqin/Alwand (437 Polish soldiers. All headstones destroyed)

Italy

Libya
  • Tobruk (Graves destroyed by revolutionist.)

Netherlands

Russia

Kazakhstan
  • Lugova
  • Lugovaya
  • Mankent
  • Merke
  • Shokpak
  • Vysokoye

Kyrgyzstan

Turkmenistan

Ukraine

Uzbekistan

Tanzania

United Kingdom

Memorials and cemeteries:

LocationCounty/RegionConstituent countryCommemorates (item(s))
Polish War Memorial, South RuislipLondonEngland1925 named. All other airmen from Poland who served in the Royal Air Force (walls with plaques, obelisk) (memorial garden) (gates and entrance pillars) (paired flagpoles)
St Clement Danes Church, Strand, near EmbankmentLondonEnglandAll Polish Air Forces in Great Britain (north aisle floor motif and books of remembrance)
Gunnersbury Cemetery, near ChiswickLondonEnglandA number of buried members of forces (headstones); 22,000 killed by genocide at Katyń by Stalin and Beria's NKVD in 1940 (obelisk)
Main drive, Audley End House, Saffron WaldenEssexEngland108 fallen Cichociemni – special operation paratroopers of the army in exile (large memorial)
Brookwood Military Cemetery, near WokingSurreyEngland84 buried members of forces (headstones); the Polish soldiers who died in the Second World War (large, reredo, stone eagle)
The Plough inn, Plumpton, near RAF ChaileySussexEnglandThose who served at RAF Chailey (Wings 131, 302, 306, 308, 315 and 317) (tall square-based pyramid with metal plaque and surmounting eagle-turned-fighter plane)
The Belvedere, Hoe Park, PlymouthDevonEnglandAll the Polish Navy & Merchant Fleet; including 19 named men and 3 vessels (bronze plaque on sloped granite slab with lettering in relief)
Polish Forces War Memorial:National Memorial Arboretum, near LichfieldStaffordshireEnglandAll forces and civilians including in Poland, in four panels including one on the Warsaw Uprising (purpose-built wall monument and four-person statue)
Newark-on-TrentNottinghamshireEngland397 (graves); large monument to all buried there (cross, tall, well-decorated)
Baginton, churchyard of the parish church of St John the BaptistWarwickshireEnglandWar graves of 308 airmen (headstones)
Carl Cam's memorial garden, by ramp to T1 departures, Manchester AirportManchesterEngland6000 Polish officers and soldiers of the 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigate and members of the Special Operations Executive who undertook parachute training together with nationals of Belgium, France, Holland and Norway.
Katyń Memorial (and Princess Parkway graves)ManchesterEngland22,000 killed by genocide in Poland by Stalin and Beria's NKVD in 1940
Liverpool quaysideMerseysideEnglandAll the Polish Navy & Merchant Fleet and those who gave their lives in the Battle of the Atlantic
Sacred Heart (RC) Church and Layton Cemetery BlackpoolLancashireEnglandEfforts, sacrifices and victories of the Polish Air Force Training Centre (church plaque); 26 war graves of Polish forces (roundabout with Cross of Sacrifice/War Cross for all 206 war graves)
BradleyNorth YorkshireEngland7 airmen, crash of 23 September 1943 (plaque) (3D eagle statue above) to ashlar stone wall in stone-made, brick and gravel-floored enclosure.
Buckden PikeNorth YorkshireEngland5 airmen, crash of 30 January 1942 (cross)
Crown Building, CardiffCardiff/GlamorganWalesAll Polish soldiers, sailors and airmen of WWII (plaque on large, fine masonry, memorial block "stone standard")
Wrexham cemeteryWrexham/ClwydWales40 forces members of over 1,200 Polish/British-Polish people (graves); Polish soldiers and their families at rest in Wales (memorial stone in black marble, engraved, segments in three languages)
DouglasSouth LanarkshireScotlandThe 10th Brigade Polish Army and Polish Army, 1940 (three stone slabs, one of which a triangular floor slab with insignia in relief) (memorial garden)
Duns public park, near Berwick-on-TweedBordersScotland127 Polish soldiers stationed in Duns at times from 1941 to 1944, who died in battle 1944–45 (cross on square-based pyramid tall marble plinth, all of dark marble)
Invergordon next to road, field and woodland, near InvernessHighlandScotlandAll people (with Polish emblems). For your and our freedom (dedicated garden enclosure with benches) (obelisk in gathered stone and mortarwork plinth with metal W-shape eagle finial gift of troops)
Wellshill Cemetery, PerthPerth and KinrossScotland350 (min.) graves; eternal glory to the Polish soldiers who died for our freedom and yours (1939–45) (three massive stone blocks, surmounting each other with crest plaque and inscription in both languages)
Shaw Monument, Royal Air Forces Association, PrestwickAyrshireScotlandAll Polish airmen stationed in Scotland; the Polish Navy, Merchant Navy and Coastal Command airmen who died in the Battle of the Atlantic (granite block)

Furthermore, two such graves are at Yatesbury, near Swindon, Wiltshire.

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