Polish War Memorial Newark-on-Trent

This memorial commemorates the Polish airmen who are buried here and was already erected in 1941, by President Raczkiewicz, ex-President of the Polish Republic and head of the war time Polish Government in London, supported by General Sikorski, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Forces and war time Polish Prime Minister. When both men subsequently died, General Sikorski in 1943 and President Raczkiewicz in 1947, they were buried at the foot of the Polish Memorial. General Sikorski's remains were returned to Poland in 1993, but there is still a memorial to him here at Newark Cemetery.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: TracesOfWar.nl (1) & Trevor Rickard (2)