Polish War Graves in Britain

Locations

Eternal Glory to the Polish Soldiers who died in 1939-1945 for Our Freedom and Yours

Inscription on Stone Monument, Polish war graves, Perth Jeanfield cemetery
Polish War Graves sign at Blacon cemetery, Chester, UK.

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A list of the 253 locations in Britain which have Polish war graves (World War 2) is given in the tables below. These are the graves of the Polish Armed Forces that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has responsibility for. Photographs of 1,111 of the over 2,300 Polish war graves in the UK are available on this website.

Headstones

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Polish headstones in addition to a person's name, date of death, age and unit also have:

  • a pointed tip
  • a crowned eagle - the national emblem of Poland
  • the words Polish Forces or Polish Resettlement Corps
The CWGC provides headstones for those who died between 3 September 1939 and 31 December 1947. If a person died between these dates whilst in war service or of causes attributable to war service then they were classified as a war casualty and entitled to a CWGC headstone.

Polish Armed Forces

The Polish Armed Forces came to the UK after the fall of France to Nazi Germany in 1940. Together Britain and Poland vowed to continue to fight. The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said to the Polish Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief General Władysław Sikorski:

“Tell your army in France that we are their comrades in life and in death. We shall conquer together or we shall die together.” (p. 15 Defeat in Victory - Jan Ciechanowski)
Locations with Largest Number of Polish War Graves
Table Guide
  • The numbers shown, in the tables below, are the number of Polish casualties at each location. Some locations will have less headstones as there may be two casualties buried in each grave e.g. Perth Jeanfield cemetery.
  • The name of the cemetery is shown below the name of the location.
  • If a camera icon is displayed this indicates the number of headstone photos and list of names available on this website.

England

  • 10Aldershot, Hampshire
    Aldershot Military
  • 2Alnwick, Northumberland
    Alnwick
  • 1Amesbury, Wiltshire
    Amesbury
  • 1Andover, Kent
    Andover
  • 1Atherstone, Warwickshire
    Atherstone
  • 9Baginton, Warwickshire
    St. John The Baptist Churchyard
  • 4Barrow
    St. Bartholomew churchyard
  • 3Barrow-In-Furness
    Barrow-In-Furness
  • 7Bath
    Haycombe
  • 3Bedford
    Bedford
  • 4Benson, Oxfordshire
    St. Helen churchyard
  • 1Beverley, Yorkshire
    Queensgate    Photos 1
  • 1Bexley, Kent
    St. Mary church
  • 1Birkenhead, Cheshire
    Landican
  • 2Birmingham
    Lodge Hill
  • 2Birmingham
    Oscott College
  • 2Birmingham
    Brandwood End
  • 1Black Bourton, Oxfordshire
    St Mary the Virgin Church
  • 1Blackpool
    Marton (St Paul) Church Burial Ground
  • 26Blackpool
    Layton
  • 1Braintree, Essex
    Braintree
  • 1Brandesburton, Yorkshire
    St. Mary churchyard
  • 1Bridgwater, Somerset
    Quantock Road
  • 4Bridlington, Yorkshire
    Bridlington
  • 3Bristol
    Arnos Vale
  • 1Bristol
    Greenbank
  • 1Bristol
    Jewish
  • 3Brookwood, Surrey
    Brookwood Cemetery (The London Necropolis)
  • 86Brookwood, Surrey
    Brookwood Military Cemetery
  • 1Burntwood, Staffordshire
    Christ Church churchyard
  • 3Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
    Bury St. Edmunds
  • 7Cambridge
    City
  • 1Canterbury, Kent
    Canterbury
  • 6Carlisle
    Dalston Road
  • 7Catterick, Yorkshire
    Catterick Garrison
  • 1Cayton, Yorkshire
    Cayton
  • 2Cheltenham
    Cheltenham
  • 1Chessington, Surrey
    St. Mary churchyard
  • 3Chevington, Northumberland
    Chevington
  • 4Chichester, Sussex
    Chichester
  • 1Chislehurst, Kent
    Chislehurst
  • 5Cirencester, Gloucestershire
    Cirencester
  • 1Clifford, Yorkshire
    St. Edward RC churchyard
  • 1Clymping, Sussex
    St. Mary churchyard
  • 2Colchester, Essex
    Colchester
  • 1Cowes, Isle of Wight
    Northwood
  • 1Cowley, Gloucestershire
    St. Mary churchyard
  • 4Cranwell, Lincolnshire
    St Andrew Churchyard
  • 1Dartford, Kent
    Dartford (Watling Street)
  • 2Diddington, Huntingdonshire
    St. Laurence Churchyard
  • 4Donnington, Shropshire
    St. Cuthbert churchyard
  • 1Dorchester, Dorset
    Weymouth Road, Dorchester
  • 1Dover, Kent
    St. James's
  • 3Driffield, Yorkshire
    Driffield
  • 2Durrington, Wiltshire
    Durrington
  • 1East Retford, Nottinghamshire
    East Retford
  • 1East Wretham, Norfolk
    St. Ethelbert Churchyard
  • 2Eastbourne, Sussex
    Langney
  • 2Ellesmere, Shropshire
    Ellesmere    Photos 2
  • 7Epping, Essex
    Epping
  • 31Exeter
    Higher Cemetery
  • 1Felixstowe, Suffolk
    Felixstowe New
  • 3Filey, Yorkshire
    Filey
  • 6Formby, Lancashire
    Our Lady Of Compassion RC churchyard
  • 8Fulford, Yorkshire
    Fulford
  • 2Gloucester
    Gloucester Old
  • 3Gosport, Hampshire
    Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery
  • 1Grange-Over-Sands, Lancashire
    Grange-Over-Sands
  • 12Halton, Buckinghamshire
    St. Michael Churchyard
  • 1Hampstead, London
    Fortune Green Road, Hampstead
  • 1Harrow, London
    Eastcote Lane
  • 1Hartlepool, County Durham
    West View
  • 1Hawkinge, Kent
    Hawkinge
  • 1Heanor, Derbyshire
    Heanor
  • 1Henlow, Bedfordshire
    St. Mary churchyard
  • 4Hereford
    Hereford
  • 1Hexham, Northumberland
    Hexham
  • 4High Wycombe
    High Wycombe
  • 4Honington, Suffolk
    All Saints Churchyard
  • 1Horsham, Sussex
    Hills
  • 13Hucknall, Nottinghamshire
    Nottinghamshire
  • 6Hylton, Sunderland
    Castletown
  • 1Ilfracombe, Devon
    Marlborough
  • 6Ilminster, Somerset
    Ilminster
  • 1Ipswich
    Ipswich
  • 1Kemble, Gloucestershire
    Kemble Church Cemetery
  • 1Kempston, Bedfordshire
    Kempston
  • 8Kensal Green, London
    St. Mary's RC
  • 1Kidlington, Oxfordshire
    Kidlington
  • 2Lancaster, Lancashire
    Skerton
  • 7Leconfield, Yorkshire
    St. Catherine Churchyard    Photos 7
  • 2Leeds
    Roman Catholic Cemetery
  • 1Leek, Staffordshire
    Leek
  • 2Leominster, Herefordshire
    Leominster cemetery
  • 1Leytonstone, London
    St. Patrick's Roman Catholic, Langthorne Road
  • 1Lincoln
    Newport
  • 1Liverpool
    Long Lane Jewish
  • 6Liverpool
    Allerton
  • 1Liverpool
    West Derby
  • 2Lyneham, Wiltshire
    St. Michael churchyard
  • 1Lyonshall, Herefordshire
    St. Michael
  • 3Manby, Lincolnshire
    St. Mary Churchyard
  • 17Manchester
    Southern
  • 8Market Drayton, Shropshire
    Market Drayton
  • 1Market Rasen, Lincolnshire
    Market Rasen
  • 1Midhurst, Sussex
    Midhurst
  • 1Millom, Cumbria
    Millom (Holy Trinity) churchyard
  • 1Millom, Cumbria
    Millom (St George) churchyard
  • 11Morden, Surrey
    Morden
  • 74Morpeth
    Mary and James Churchyard
  • 1Moston, Lancashire
    St. Joseph's RC
  • 1Netley, Hampshire
    Netley military cemetery
  • 6New Hunstanton, Norfolk
    New Hunstanton
  • 20Newmarket
    Newmarket
  • 2North Weald Bassett, Essex
    St Andrew churchyard
  • 1Northampton
    Towcester Road
  • 54Northwood, London
    Northwood
  • 3Nottingham
    Southern
  • 26Ormskirk
    St. Anne RC Churchyard
  • 3Orpington
    St Mary Cray
  • 12Oxford
    Botley
  • 2Penrith
    Penrith
  • 2Pickering, Yorkshire
    Pickering
  • 25Plymouth
    Weston Mill
  • 1Plymouth
    Efford
  • 2Reading
    Henley Road
  • 1Redhill, Arnold, Nottingham
    Redhill
  • 3Saffron Walden, Essex
    Saffron Walden
  • 1Savernake Forest, Wiltshire
    St. Katharine churchyard
  • 2Scarborough, Yorkshire
    Woodlands
  • 1Sedgefield, County Durham
    Sedgefield New
  • 1Shaftesbury, Dorset
    Shaftesbury Borough
  • 7Shawbury, Shropshire
    St. Mary Churchyard
  • 2Sheffield
    City Road
  • 1Shorncliffe, Kent
    Shorncliffe Military
  • 2Shrewsbury, Shropshire
    Shrewsbury General
  • 5Silloth, Cumberland
    Causewayhead
  • 1Sittingbourne, Kent
    Sittingbourne
  • 1Solihull, Warwickshire
    Warwickshire
  • 2Southampton
    Hollybrook
  • 1Southend-on-Sea, Essex
    Sutton Road
  • 1Southport, Lancashire
    Duke Street
  • 1Spalding, Lincolnshire
    Spalding
  • 41St Neots
    St Neots
  • 1St. Helens, Lancashire
    St. Helens
  • 2Stafford
    Stafford
  • 3Stamfordham, Northumberland
    St. Mary churchyard
  • 1Stoke-On-Trent
    Tunstall
  • 1Stotfold, Bedfordshire
    Three Counties Hospital
  • 1Streatham, Surrey
    Streatham Park, Rowan Road
  • 2Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire
    St Matthew churchyard
  • 1Swanscombe, Kent
    Swanscombe
  • 2Taunton, Somerset
    St. Mary's
  • 36Tidworth, Wiltshire
    Tidworth Military
  • 1Tonbridge. Kent
    Tonbridge
  • 1Warmwell, Dorset
    Holy Trinity churchyard
  • 1Warrington
    Warrington
  • 3Watchfield, Berkshire
    Watchfield
  • 3Weston-Super-Mare
    Weston-Super-Mare
  • 51Whitchurch, Shropshire
    Whitchurch
  • 1Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire
    Ss. Mary And Andrew
  • 2Whyteleafe, Surrey
    St. Luke churchyard
  • 1Winsley, Wiltshire
    St. Nicholas churchyard
  • 1Wolverhampton
    Wolverhampton Borough
  • 2Woodchester, Gloucestershire
    Church Of The Annunciation
  • 1Wooler, Northumberland
    St Ninian Roman Catholic churchyard
  • 1Woolwich, London
    Woolwich
  • 4Worcester
    Astwood
  • 1Wroughton, Wiltshire
    Ss. John The Baptist And Helen
  • 3Yatesbury, Wiltshire
    All Saints churchyard

Isle of Man

  • 7Jurby
    St Patrick churchyard

Northern Ireland

  • 3Ballycranbeg, County Down
    Mount St Joseph Churchyard
  • 7Belfast
    Milltown RC
  • 1Carnmoney, County Antrim
    Jewish
  • 1Glenavy, County Antrim
    Glenavy RC churchyard
  • 3Newtownards, County Down
    Newtownards (Movilla) Cemetery

Scotland

  • 2Aberdeen
    Grove
  • 2Arbroath
    Eastern
  • 2Auchterarder
    Auchterarder
  • 1Blairgowrie
    Blairgowrie
  • 1Bothwell
    Bothwell Park
  • 2Brechin
    Brechin
  • 1Cambuslang
    Westburn
  • 2Carnoustie
    Shanwell
  • 1Carrbridge
    Carrbridge
  • 1Ceres
    Ceres
  • 1Douglas
    Gateside
  • 13Dumfries
    St Andrews RC
  • 2Dunfermline
    Dunfermline
  • 1Dunfermline
    Douglas Bank
  • 1Dyce
    Dyce Old
  • 9Evanton
    Kiltearn Parish
  • 2Falkirk
    Camelon
  • 1Fraserburgh
    Kirkton
  • 1Glasgow
    Cathcart Jewish
  • 2Glasgow
    Glenduff Hill Jewish
  • 4Glasgow
    St Kentigern's RC
  • 1Glasgow
    St Peter's RC
  • 1Glen Spean
    Cille Choirill
  • 3Hawick
    Wellogate
  • 1Hutton
    Hutton
  • 6Inverness
    Tomnahurich
  • 1Kilmarnock
    Kilmarnock
  • 2Larbert
    Larbert
  • 1Longside
    Longside
  • 1Lossiemouth
    Drainie
  • 1Mauchline
    Mauchline
  • 8Montrose
    Sleepy Hillock
  • 2Motherwell
    Airbles
  • 1Paisley
    Hawkhead
  • 5Peebles
    Peebles
  • 5Petty
    Petty Parish Churchyard
  • 1Portree
    Stronuirnish
  • 1Rathen
    Cairnblug and Inverallochy
  • 3Renfrew
    Arkleston
  • 8Rothesay
    Rothesay
  • 9Sanquhar
    Sanquahr Parish Church
  • 1St Andrews
    Western
  • 3Stranraer
    Glebe
  • 6Symington
    St John's Kirk Old Churchyard
  • 1Thurso
    Mt Vernon
  • 3Wick
    Wick

Wales

  • 1Bangor
    Llandegai Road
  • 2Cardiff, Glamorganshire
    Cardiff Western
  • 2Cardigan
    Cardigan
  • 2Carew, Pembrokeshire
    St. Mary churchyard
  • 1Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
    City Road
  • 8Hawarden, Flintshire
    Hawarden
  • 3Holyhead
    St. Mary's RC
  • 1Llangadwaladr, Anglesey
    St. Cadwaladr churchyard
  • 7Pembrey, Carmarthenshire
    St Illtyd Churchyard
  • 1Pembroke Dock
    Llanion
  • 1Pentyrch, Glamorganshire
    St. Cattwg churchyard
  • 1Pontypool, Monmouthshire
    Panteg
  • 5Porthcawl, Glamorganshire
    Porthcawl
  • 2Portmadoc, Caernarvonshire
    Portmadoc
  • 5Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire
    Pwllheli Borough
  • 1St Clears, Carmarthenshire
    St Mary churchyard
  • 1Swansea
    Morriston
Sources

The following sources have been used to provide information for these tables.