Jeanfield & Wellshill Cemetery ~ Polish War Graves


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 ReSursum 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