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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.

Austria

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Belarus

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Polish military quarter at the Catholic Parish Cemetery in Grodno
  • Polish military quarter in Ashmyany (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Braslaw (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish Garrison Cemetery in Brest
  • Polish military quarter at the Catholic cemetery in Brest (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish war cemetery in Brest (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish war cemetery in Dawhinava (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish war cemetery in Dokshytsy (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish war cemetery in Draguny (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish war cemetery in Dunilavičy (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter at the Catholic Parish Cemetery in Grodno (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarters at the Military Cemetery in Grodno (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 and World War II)
  • Polish military quarter at the Catholic cemetery in Halshany (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Hiermanavičy (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
Polish military quarter in Hlybokaye
  • Polish military quarter in Hlybokaye (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Jazna (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Kobryn (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 and World War II)
  • Polish war cemetery in Kruliaŭščyna (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter at the Catholic cemetery in Kryvichy (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish war cemetery in Kuraniec (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Lida (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter at the Catholic cemetery in Lužki (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter at the Catholic cemetery in Lyntupy (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Miory (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Myadzyel (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish war cemetery in Novy Svieržań (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Nyasvizh (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Padsvillye (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter at the Catholic cemetery in Pruzhany (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Radashkovichy (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter at the Catholic cemetery in Shchuchyn (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish war cemetery in Slabodka (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter at the Catholic cemetery in Slonim (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Užanka (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Valkalata (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Varniany (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish war cemetery in Vawkavysk (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Vileyka (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Vishnyeva (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter at the Catholic cemetery in Vysokaye (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Zadarožža (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)

Belgium

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Canada

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France

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Grainville-Langannerie Polish war cemetery

Germany

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Polish military quarter at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg

Hungary

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  • Polish military quarter in Budakeszi (15 soldiers)
  • Polish military quarter in Rákoskeresztúr, Budapest (over 100 soldiers)
  • Polish military quarter in Eger (11 soldiers)
  • Polish military quarter in Győr (45 soldiers)
  • Grave at the cemetery in Kadarkút (1 officer)
  • Polish graves at the war cemetery in Solymár (37 military pilots)[1]

Iran

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Iraq

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Israel

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  • Polish military quarter in Jaffa
  • Polish military quarter in the Mount Zion Franciscan Cemetery in Jerusalem

Italy

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Monte Cassino Polish war cemetery

Kazakhstan

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Kyrgyzstan

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Latvia

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  • Polish military quarter in Ezernieki (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Krāslava (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Laucesa (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Višķi (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)

Libya

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  • Tobruk (Graves destroyed by revolutionist.)

Lithuania

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Polish military quarter in Rasos Cemetery, Vilnius
  • Polish military quarter at the Antakalnis Cemetery (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 and World War II; over 1,600 soldiers)
  • Two Polish military quarters at the Rasos Cemetery (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 and World War II)
  • Polish military quarter in Dūkštas (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921; over 100 soldiers)
  • Polish Home Army quarter in Dubičiai
  • Polish Home Army quarter in Eišiškės
  • Polish Home Army quarter in Kalesninkai (24 soldiers)
  • Polish military quarter in Maišiagala (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter at the parish cemetery in Marcinkonys (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish military quarter in Nemenčinė (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish Home Army quarter in Pavilnys (around 120 soldiers)
  • Polish military quarter in Pavoverė (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)
  • Polish and Lithuanian war cemetery in Širvintos (Polish–Lithuanian War)
  • Polish Home Army quarter in Skurbutėnai
  • Polish military quarter in Švenčionėliai (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921; around 500 soldiers)
  • Polish military quarter in Trakai (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921; over 100 soldiers)
  • Polish military quarter in Varėna (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921; 18 soldiers)
  • Polish military quarter at the Military Cemetery in Vingis, Vilnius (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921)[3]

Netherlands

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Polish Military Cemetery in Breda

Norway

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Romania

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Russia

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Katyn war cemetery

Tanzania

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Turkmenistan

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Ukraine

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Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów

United Kingdom

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Memorials and cemeteries:

Location County/Region Constituent country Commemorates (item(s))
Polish War Memorial, South Ruislip London England 1925 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 Embankment London England All Polish Air Forces in Great Britain (north aisle floor motif and books of remembrance)
Gunnersbury Cemetery, near Chiswick London England A 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 Walden Essex England 108 fallen Cichociemni – special operation paratroopers of the army in exile (large memorial)
Brookwood Military Cemetery, near Woking Surrey England 84 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 Chailey Sussex England Those 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, Plymouth Devon England All 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 Lichfield Staffordshire England All 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-Trent Nottinghamshire England 397 (graves); large monument to all buried there (cross, tall, well-decorated)
Baginton, churchyard of the parish church of St John the Baptist Warwickshire England War graves of 308 airmen (headstones)
Carl Cam's memorial garden, by ramp to T1 departures, Manchester Airport Manchester England 6000 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) Manchester England 22,000 killed by genocide in Poland by Stalin and Beria's NKVD in 1940
Liverpool quayside Merseyside England All the Polish Navy & Merchant Fleet and those who gave their lives in the Battle of the Atlantic
Sacred Heart (RC) Church and Layton Cemetery Blackpool Lancashire England Efforts, 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)
Bradley North Yorkshire England 7 airmen, crash of 23 September 1943 (plaque) (3D eagle statue above) to ashlar stone wall in stone-made, brick and gravel-floored enclosure.
Buckden Pike North Yorkshire England 5 airmen, crash of 30 January 1942 (cross)
Crown Building, Cardiff Cardiff/Glamorgan Wales All Polish soldiers, sailors and airmen of WWII (plaque on large, fine masonry, memorial block "stone standard")
Wrexham Cemetery Wrexham/Clwyd Wales 40 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)
Douglas South Lanarkshire Scotland The 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-Tweed Borders Scotland 127 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 Inverness Highland Scotland All 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, Perth Perth and Kinross Scotland 350 (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, Prestwick Ayrshire Scotland All 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.

Uzbekistan

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Polish War Cemetery in Gʻuzor

References

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  1. ^ Marta Dzbeńska-Karpińska (1 November 2022). "Polskie groby wojenne na węgierskiej ziemi" (in Polish). Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Polska nekropolia w Italii". Polska Zbrojna (in Polish). 21 August 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  3. ^ "Katalog polskich miejsc pamięci narodowej na Litwie – cmentarze wojskowe, groby żołnierskie, pomniki, upamiętnienia" (in Polish). Retrieved 10 December 2023.
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