The cemetery was chosen as a Polish war grave cemetery during the Second World War – southern end by the Jeanfield Road entrance. After the fall of France (1940), part of the Polish Army reformed in Britain as the 1st Polish Corps – their role in Scotland was to protect the eastern coast against invasion.
Headstones – pointed tip and the crowned eagle of Poland. The gravestones are ‘predominantly laid out in three rows with graves on both sides of the row. In most cases each grave contains the remains of two members of the Polish forces.’
‘The Register of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission detail 354 Polish war graves – 339 Army, 4 Navy, 9 Air Force, 1 Nurse, and 1 Civilian. Excluded from the Polish casualties are 26 members of the Polish Resettlement Corps who are included in the British statistics and G K Langer of the PRC who died on 30 March 1948.
The earliest Polish war grave is that of pchor (Officer Cadet) Ulrych-Uleneski
Next section includes Poles who died after the war but are commemorated as ‘Late Polish Forces’ – plus those whose families requested that they be buried near their comrades
Stanislaw Trobala Lt. Polish forces b. 7/11/05 of Cieszyn (Silesia) d. 6/1/77 Stirling Founder Dunblane Light Engineering “Fortiter in Re” Sursum Corba.
Gwido Langer Lieutenant Colonel d. 30/4/1948 age 53 Polish Resettlement Corps – Exhumed in 2010 at the request of his daughter, returned to Poland and reburied in his home town of Cieszyn with full military honours. ‘Langer was the head of the Polish Cipher Bureau, and led a team which in 1932 broke the code of the Enigma Cipher machine. Shortly before the outbreak of war in July 1939 Polish Intelligence shared their breakthrough with the British and French Secret Services. The Poles code breaking work on Enigma was continued by the British at Bletchley Park.’
Boleslaw Adamczyk d. 23/4/1945 age 29
Waclaw, Adolf d. 5/11/1941 age 38
Józef Albrecht d. 27/2/1941 age 35
Artur Aleksik d. 3/2/1947 age 33
A Ambrozewicz d. 17/6/1945 age 31
Leslaw Andruchowski d. 20/2/1941 age 20
Mikolaj Andrusyszyn d. 17/4/1944 age unknown
Józef Aniolczyk d. 7/6/1941 age 24
Ludwik Antochow d. 13/11/1944 age unknown
Czeslaw Augustowski d. 8/2/1943 age 28
Bronislaw Bajdan d. 26/8/1945 age 36
Jerzy Antoni Baliñski d. 23/10/1941 age 49
Jan Banas d. 1/12/1943 age 26
Banaszek, Piotr d. 31/12/1940 age 33
Jerzy Barcicki d. 14/6/1941 age 24
Zbigniew Bazgier d. 22/1/1942 age 22
Jan Bednarek d. 22/4/1947 age 43
Lucjan Andrzej Beldowski d. 11/9/1947 age 48
Józef Bieczkowski d. 20/4/1945 age 21
Jan Bihl d. 5/9/1946 age 40
Karol Bik d. 28/8/1941 age 54
Grzegorz Bilyk d. 15/4/1945 age 30
Franciszek Binczycki d. 14/12/1943 age 42
Marian Franciszek Binert d. 27/7/1947 age 33
Wojciech Bobulski d. 3/4/1942 age 44
Michal Borsuk d. 8/2/1942 age 25
Ignacy Brak d. 30/8/1941 age 21
Jan Bronicki d. 29/10/1946 age 39
Wiktor Stanislaw Brummer d. 21/11/1941 age 47
Henryk Brzoza d. 6/7/1945 age 19
Wilhelm Brzozowski d. 14/11/1945 age 52
Michal Buczynski d. 29/4/1946 age 46
Boleslaw Bujnowski d. 4/11/1945 age 36
Józef Bykowicz d. 22/11/1944 age 47
Karol Byrkowski d. 23/3/1943 age 51
Stefania Barbara Carowa d. 16/8/1941
Andrzej Chemen d. 20/5/1941 age 27
Kazimierz Józef Chimiak d. 19/6/1941 age 18
Stanislaw Chmielowski d. 21/6/1943 age 55
Franciszek Cieniewicz d. 17/12/1946 age 49
Cieslar, Pawel d. 14/4/1941 age 26
Józef Cimachowicz d. 15/2/1946 age 35
Zygmunt Cuzek d. 6/3/1947 age 57
Maurycy Cwern d. 11/5/1941 age 18
Bronislaw Czajka d. 9/2/1946 age 23
Czerniecki, Marcin
Mieczyslaw Dankowski d. 2/1/1942 age 34
Wilhelm Daum d. 22/1/1946 age 22
Wladyslaw Franciszek Demski d. 15/6/1941 age 24
Tadeusz Dluzniakiewicz d. 12/1/1947 age 59
Aleksander Dmoch d. 29/7/1941 age 30
Stanislaw Dobosz d. 18/10/1943 age 45
Antoni Norbert Dobrzaniecki d. 16/11/1946 age 48
Jan Drag d. 14/11/1942 age 45
Jan Drozdzenski d. 5/5/1947 age 36
Michal Dunicz d. 26/9/1944 age 35
Dzialowski, Stanislaw d. 19/3/1942 age unknown
Jan Faltynowski d. 13/6/1945 age 42
Karol Fara d. 23/8/1943 age 30
Emil Flach d. 16/10/1941 age 49
Emanuel Fójcik d. 16/8/1945 age 46
Stanislaw Gajda d. 25/8/1946 age 43
Tadeusz Gasienica-Giewont d. 6/10/1942 age 34
Boleslaw Gaworowski d. 31/7/1946 age 44
J Geber d. 26/4/1941 age 20
Stanislaw Gierlotka d. 15/10/1946 age 22
Wlodzimierz Gilda d. 20/12/1941 age 30
Jan Gill d. 19/2/1946 age 29
Antoni Gladysz d. 4/2/1942 age 23
Aleksander Glebocki d. 3/6/1942 age 36
Franciszek Glowacz d. 23/8/1944 age 35
Alojzy Jan Glyda d. 18/10/1944 age 50
Stanislaw Gondela d. 28/7/1943 age 24
Waclaw Konstanty Gora d. 6/2/1942 age 37
Remigiusz Jerzy Gordon d. 1/7/1944 age 30
Jan Gosieniecki d. 11/5/1946 age 35
Franciszek Gross d. 2/6/1941 age 26
Michal Gruszkiewicz d. 23/4/1943 age 32
Michal Gryglaszewski d. 2/7/1945 age 25
Piotr Teofil Grygo d. 3/7/1944 age 28
Mieczyslaw Grzegorzewski d. 2/2/1946 age 32
Antoni Grzeskowiak, d. 18/11/1942 age 35
Seweryn Henisz d. 24/7/1941 age 43
Leon Hetmaniak d. 2/4/1946 age 46
Jan Hinc d. 10/1/1946 age 24
Janislaw Hirsch d. 21/7/1947 age 37
Józef Stanislaw Hoffman d. 3/10/1941 age 41
Leon Horn d. 11/2/1942 age 50
Jan Hryhorczyk d. 27/3/1941 age 42
Mieczyslaw Idzik d. 15/9/1942 age 28
Michal Iwankiewicz d. 7/12/1943 age 21
Piotr Iwanow d. 1/2/1946 age 28
Tadeusz Jakubik d. 17/12/1945 age 48
Jakub Jakubowski d. 19/9/1944 age 43
Wincenty Jambor d. 6/3/1946 age 59
Henryk Janicki d. 22/3/1942 age 38
Mieczyslaw Janicki d. 17/9/1944 age 38
Bronislaw Jankowski d. 25/6/1945 age 23
Mieczyslaw Jankowski d. 13/10/1942 age 29
Stefan Janowicz d. 30/4/1945 age 30
Franciszek Januszewski d. 3/5/1946 age 52
Stanislaw Jarmuz d. 27/10/1946 age 57
Wieslaw Marceli Jarzembski d. 6/3/1941 age 35
Alojzy Jasinski d. 12/10/1941 age 41
Jan Stanislaw Jasinski d. 3/4/1942 age 28
Wladyslaw Jaskólka d. 26/5/1945 age 19
Jan Jaworski d. 28/4/1941 age 39
Boleslaw Jazdzewski d. 5/10/1947 age 23
Stanislaw Jedrzejczyk d. 4/4/1942 age 29
Józef Jez d. 18/8/1943 age 26
Kazimierz Jez d. 6/2/1947 age 39
Franciszek Jurczyk d. 18/8/1945 age 48
Michal Kaczynski d. 2/2/1944 age 24
Witold Andrzej Kadzielawa d. 5/1/1941 age 24
Edmund Kajdan d. 29/7/1945 age 18
Dymitr Kalitonczyk d. 22/9/1946
Antoni Engelbert Kaluza d. 8/8/1946 age 42
Robert Kaminski d. 2/12/1944 age 49
W Kaminski d. 22/9/1942 age 43
Franciszek Karczewski d. 24/5/1945 age 40
Wladyslaw Karpinski d. 27/9/1945 age 30
Józef Kasperowicz d. 10/6/1944 age 35
Wladyslaw Kinel d. 1/5/1943 age 48
Eugeniusz Kinicki d. 29/11/1946 age 40
Franciszek Kisiel d. 29/9/1943 age 21
Franciszek Kitel d. 20/4/1945 age 37
Józef Klementowicz d. 6/4/1946 age 32
Józef Klim d. 25/12/1945 age 36
Kazimierz Klodnicki d. 11/3/1946 age 24
Ignacy Kmiecik d. 12/4/1942 age 36
Jan Kojs d. 24/5/1947 age 50
Tadeusz Jan Kolasinski d. 11/10/1943 age 40
Edward Kolat d. 14/5/1947 age 17
Józef Komor d. 16/9/1943
Ludwik Kondratowicz d. 15/10/1946 age 36
Marcin Konopka d. 6/9/1945 age 20
Józef Kopec d. 21/4/1947 age 53
Fabian Kosakowski d. 20/3/1946 age 29
Julian Kosciak d. 22/7/1945 age 20
Ryszard Koszowski d. 6/1/1947 age 41
Józef Kotowski d. 28/11/1945 age 35
Karol Kowalski d. 17/6/1942 age 24
Tadeusz Kowalski d. 11/9/1945 age 48
Eugenia Kownaca d. 9/9/1942 age 31
Józef Kozakiewicz d. 31/8/1943 age 20
Norbert Kozakiewicz d. 10/4/1944 age 44
Jan Kozan d. 4/12/1942 age 38
Walerian Kozlowski d. 12/10/1947 age 21
Wincenty Kozlowski d. 14/9/1946 age 48
Krawczyk Kazimierz d. 28/6/1945 age 41
Tadeusz Król d. 19/2/1941 age 28
Franciszek Kruszynski d. 13 June 1941
Adam Jan Krzanowski d. 24/11/1941 age 37
Jan Marian Kubowski d. 15/7/1943 age 44
Michal Kucemba d. 6/6/1946 age 48
Stefan Kucharski d. 7/8/1947 age 58
Mieczyslaw Kujawa d. 16/12/1943 age 22
Franciszek Kulik d. 29/4/1945 age 41
Franciszek Kunat d. 4/3/1946 age 60
Maksymilian Kuska d. 7/4/1946 age 43
Mieczyslaw Kutowski d. 11/7/1945 age 20
Mikolaj Kuzbida d. 11/5/1945 age 42
Wladyslaw Lach d. 4/12/1943 age 21
Gwido Karol Langer d. 30/3/1948 age 53
Józef Lazarz d. 14/19/1946 age 44
Boleslaw Leszczyk d. 4/12/1943 age 19
Feliks Lew d. 6/6/1941 age 36
Zygmunt Lis, Stanislaw d. 7/5/1941 age 34
Wladyslaw Literski d. 2/9/1945 age 25
Wladyslaw Lubaszko d. 26/4/1941 age 26
Maciej Machnik d. 14/2/1946 age 50
Jan Macura (served as Jan Stankiewicz) d. 8/6/1945 age 20
Maksymilian Maczkowski (served as M Michalak) d. 19/6/1945 age 24
S Magulski d. 31/1/1946 age 20
Jan Majerczak d. 23/5/1942 age 28
Franciszek Malanczuk d. 1/4/1944 age 31
Marian Malanczuk d. 14/5/1947 age 41
Eugeniusz Malik d. 26/7/1941 age 22
Antoni Malinowski-Litta d. 21/7/1945 age 47
Wladyslaw Mamczak d. 30/6/1943 age 24
Jerzy Maniura d. 26/12/1945 age 51
Antoni Marchaluk d. 5/11/1944 age 29
Wojciech Marciniak d. 16/2/1943 age 46
Alojzy Markefka d. 25/12/1944 age 29
Jan Marzec d. 17/10/1941 age 41
Ksawery Masiak d. 5/6/1946 age 44
Jan Mastalarek d. 4/3/1947 age 32
Stanislaw Matuszewicz d. 27/12/1945
Aleksander Matuszewski d. 27/11/1941 age 28
Walenty Mazurkiewicz d. 10/3/1945 age 54
Edmund Medecki d. 12/3/1942 age 31
Miroslaw Melnyk d. 23/7/1946 age 27
Stanislaw Kazimierz Michalak d. 13/1/1943 age 27
Jerzy Michalowski d. 12/12/1944 age 35
Józef Michniewicz d. 27/4/1946 age 23
Franciszek Michnowicz d. 15/5/1943 age 37
Wladyslaw Mierzynski d. 8/5/1947 age 21
Feliks Mieszala d. 2/10/1945 age 25
Józef Migala d. 9/10/1944 age 42
Adam Misiuk d. 2/7/1944 age 38
Stanislaw Miszczysyn d. 14/3/1944 age 56
Pawel Modrzynski d. 2/6/1946 age 31
Jan Mottel d. 5/10/1947 age 44
Stefan Mróz d. 27/5/1941 age 26
Kazimierz Mrozek d. 4/9/1941 age 21
Walenty Najwer d. 29/3/1941 age 46
Alfred Nechay d. 16/8/1944 age 53
Zygmunt Neiman d. 17/9/1945 age 38
Józef Stanislaw Neuman d. 9/8/1945 age 30
Roman Apolinary Nieminski d. 12/3/1946 age 56
Karol Niewiadomski d. 18/1/1946 age 41
Leon Nowacki d. 23/4/1942 age 41
Bronislaw Nowak d. 28/8/1944 age 46
Marian Nowak d. 29/6/1944 age 18
Konrad Nowakowski d. 17/4/1946 age 27
Leon Nowicki d. 17/4/1946 age 26
Kazimierz Nykiel d. 31/7/1942 age 47
Adam Leopold Oliwa d. 22/7/1947 age 52
Stanislaw Zygmunt Orlowski d. 23/9/1944 age 50
Wladyslaw Orman d. 19/7/1941 age 28
Józef Owsik d. 9/11/1942 age 52
Józef Pajak d. 20/9/1943 age 46
Czeslaw Pakuszewski d. 21/9/1947 age 47
Waclaw Palys d. 13/10/1949 age 49
Józef Patok d. 1/8/1945 age 22
Teofil Paul d. 14/10/1942 age 30
Stefan Pawelczyk d. 17/4/1946 age 23
Boleslaw Michal Ryszard Pawlowski d. 28/7/1946 age 53
Wiktor Pawlowski d. 2/4/1941 age 19
Aleksander Pechalski d. 15/3/1942 age 44
Piotr Pereswiet-Soltan d. 3/1/1943 age 25
Marian Perschke d. 19/12/1943 age 45
Antoni Franciszek Petraniuk d. 13/1/1943 age 21
Gerard Petrich d. 10/7/1945 age 31
Gustaw Wincenty Pflanzer d. 6/9/1947 age 47
Wladyslaw Piech d. 27/5/1942 age 39
Leon Piecha d. 13/9/1944 age 31
Józef Piecuch d. 17/12/1940 age 46
Józef Piekarek d. 11/7/1946 age 48
Stefan Konstanty Pienczykowski d. 23/9/1942 age 44
Henryk Pietrzykowski d. 23/10/1943 age 24
Tadeusz Piróg d. 5/3/1941 age 24
Józef Plaza d. 20/5/1943 age 23
Konstanty Poglódek d. 23/7/1944 age 51
Henryk Pogoda d. 16/1/1941 age 24
Edward Pokorny d. 30/7/1945 age 19
Wladyslaw Ponikowski d. 14/5/1941 age 23
Józef Predkiel d. 8/5/1946 age 38
Mikolaj Proniuk d. 8/3/1945 age 44
Ignacy Prysko d. 16/6/1945 age 37
Józef Przybyla d. 10/6/1941 age 27
Euzebiusz Anastazy Przybylek d. 6/7/1944 age 44
Józef Psiuk d. 30/1/1943 age 48
Marian Tadeusz Ptasinski d. 10/4/1942 age 35
Józef Pustulka d. 18/3/1943 age 38
Stefan Radolinski d. 8/4/1941 age 40
Bronislaw Radowski d. 12/9/1941 age 50
Mieczyslaw Radwan d. 29/9/1943 age 18
Wladyslaw Rajecki d. 4/12/1946 age 32
Mieczyslaw Rappaport d. 17/1/1946 age 45
Feliks Ratynski d. 23/12/1941 age 33
Kazimierz Reluga d. 1/8/1945 age 35
Jan Respondek d. 2/8/1946 age 26
Franciszek Robak d. 20/6/1947 age 47
Henryk Edward Rolinski d. 8/12/1945 age 57
Mieczyslaw Ropiecki d. 13/1/1944 age 29
Adam Piotr Rosiek d. 6/1/1942 age 45
Aleksander Wladyslaw Rotter d. 30/1/1941 age 40
Marek Rozmus d. 7/6/1945 age 44
Jan Franciszek Rudowski d. 9/10/1943 age 38
Franciszek Ryczka d. 21/7/1944 age 55
Jan Boleslaw Rysiewski d. 17/3/1946 age 51
Wladyslaw Ryszkowski d. 14/12/1941 age 36
Seweryn Sadowski d. 28/12/1944 age 35
Aleksander Sak d. 2/10/1945 age 40
Jakub Samel d. 3/2/1947 age 38
Julian Schneider d. 2/4/1944 age 48
Wladyslaw Serafin d. 21/7/1945 age 40
Stefan Serednicki d. 29/8/1945 age 48
Stefan Siemienski d. 29/11/1945 age 40
Stanislaw Piotr Sinkowski d. 20/10/1942 age 52
Józef Skoczylas d. 10/6/1946 age 41
Matylda Skoczynska d. 10/1/1941
Wladyslaw Skórkowski d. 30/12/1941 age 36
Stanislaw Skrzypiec d. 17/3/1946 age 35
Kamil Zenon Slizowski d. 10/10/1943 age 53
Aleksander Slowinski d. 13/4/1945 age 47
Waclaw Smierzchalski d. 9/4/1943 age 43
Stanislaw Sobieraj d. 17/4/1946 age 40
Artur Socha d. 14/7/1943 age 47
Edward Sochacki d. 12/4/1947 age 32
Stanislaw Sorocki d. 7/12/1944 age 45
Wladyslaw Sosnowski d. 13/9/1941 age 31
Józef Spychaj d. 28/9/1944 age 45
Józef Wiktor Sroka d. 23/9/1943 age 38
Adam Zbigniew Stanczyk d. 16/3/1946 age 25
Stanislaw Stasienko d. 8/4/1942 age 28
Zygmunt Lubin Stawarski d. 14/11/1945 age 49
Franciszek Jan Stecd d. 13/6/1947 age 37
Bonifacy Stefaniak d. 13/11/1942 age 30
Kazimierz Mieczyslaw Stefczyk d. 2/5/1941 age 49
Józef Stelmaszyk d. 29/5/1946 age 20
Wojciech Stezowski d. 31/8/1943 age 50
Wladyslaw Strutynski d. 1/3/1941 age 39
Wladyslaw Szczecinski d. 27/2/1944 age 43
Antoni Szczerbicki d. 22/9/1941 age 48
Antoni Szczyrba d. 24/9/1943 age 48
Jan Szeremeta d. 14/1/1947 age 47
Stanislaw Szewczyk d. 25/5/1941 age 26
Jan Szmidt d. 10/10/1945 age 30
Tadeusz Rafal Szmoniewski d. 26/12/1941 age 51
Alojzy Szopa d. 4/4/1945 age 29
Józef Stefan Szper d. 30/1/1942 age 58
Teodor Szportiuk d. 8/11/1946 age 42
Jan Bronislaw Szymanski d. 6/9/1946 age 53
Stanislaw Szymanski d. 12/1/1946 age 22
Mikolaj Szymczyszyn, d. 31/1/1942 age 25
Klemens Szymkiewicz d. 5/6/1943 age 49
Walery Szymkowiak d. 18/3/1942 age 38
Bronislaw Szymula d. 20/3/1946 age 29
Stefan Tarlowski d. 26/6/1942 age 46
Wladyslaw Tazbir d. 15/3/1936 23
Alojzy Tocha d. 17/3/1946 age 30
Jan Torba d. 18/7/1941 age 30
Stefan Franciszek Traczewski d. 14/2/1942 age 43
Jan Trepka d. 10/11/1946 age 29
Mieczyslaw Trojak d. 11/5/1941 age 40
Marian Andrzej Twardzik d. 5/12/1942 age 35
Janusz Ulrych-Ulenski d. 18/11/1949 age 27
Jerzy Urbanski d. 7/12/1946 age 24
Aleksander Ustinowicz d. 10/3/1943 age 29
Jan Wagner d. 31/5/1945 age 22
Wasyl Waszczyszyn d. 28/5/1943 age 39
Franciszek Weglerski d. 23/5/1945 age 33
Franciszek Weinka d. 16/12/1945 age 37
Piotr Weklak d. 20/2/1946 age 19
Wladyslaw Werstler d. 1/2/1941 age 21
Józef Widerski d. 4/5/1946 age 24
Józef Wieczorek d. 24/4/1944 age 42
Stefan Wielunek d. 24.9/1946 age 37
Józef Wija d. 14/2/1944 age 28
Stefan Wilandt d. 1/5/1947 age 32
Jan Wilczek d. 30/8/1941 age 51
Antoni Winkler d. 22/4/1946 age 22
Erwin Winsze d. 22/8/1947 age 43
Walerian Feliks Wisniewski d. 19/10/1946 age 53
Witold Wisniewski d. 27/4/1941 age 24
Zygmunt Wisniewski d. 9/4/1945 age 20
Witold Witkowski d. 15/1/1947 age 44
Jan Witoszynski, d. 12/3/1944
Zdzislaw Witwicki d. 12/5/1943 age 24
Alfred Wodarz d. 14/8/1945
Henryk Wodzynski d. 7/6/1941 age 24
Stanislaw Wójtowicz d. 27/3/1942 age 30
Tadeusz Wolf d. 13/5/1947 age 27
Antoni Wolk d. 19/5/1946 age 28
Czeslaw Wolosznski d. 14/9/1946 age 21
Julian Wiktor Wortman d. 11/10/1941 age 27
Maksymilian Wróblewski d. 7/6/1945 age 36
Wladyslaw Wyrwas d. 24/7/1946 age 29
Stefan Wystepek d. 23/2/1941 age 25
Wlodzimierz Zacharczonek d. 25/6/1944 age 26
Józef Zagórski d. 19/3/1947 age 35
Zofia Zajac d. 9/1/1946 age 20
Stanislaw Zalenski d. 29/9/1943 age 28
Jan Zalewski d. 22/8/1943 age 57
Karol Zamarski d. 1/11/1942 age 48
Tadeusz Zarzycki d. 2/5/1946 age 47
Ludwik Zasada d. 17/11/1941 age 34
Jan Zawada d. 5/3/1944 age 33
Eugeniusz Zawistowski d. 12/12/1940 age 30
Mieczyslaw Zdanski d. 24/6/1947 age 39
Józef Zeguslawski d. 3/4/1943 age 46
Wladyslaw Ziaj d. 17/4/1946 age 24
Wladyslaw Zielinski d. 26/5/1942 age 42
Józef Zienowski d. 3/12/1946 age 43
Hubert Ziora d. 12/1/1945 age 25
Pawel Piotr Zuchowski d. 1/3/1946 age 33
Wladyslaw Zuk d. 12/5/1943 age 44
Helmut-Emanuel Zura d. 10/8/1945 age 22
Franciszek Zygmunt d. 26/5/1945 age 20