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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.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Polish headstones in addition to a person's name, date of death, age and unit also have:
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.
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)
The following sources have been used to provide information for these tables.