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Corstorphine Hill Cemetery, Edinburgh (Polish Graves)
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote


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Plk W Wroblewski Szt Gl 19th May 1942 age 50 Polish Forces

Register of Polish War graves -
Władysław Wroblewski, born 26.8.1891, Szydłowiec, Radom Dist. kw gł Sztabu NW (szef Intendentury Szt NW = Head of Commissariat NW)
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote


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Szer W Zajac szw szt 1 dyw panc 2nd March 1944 age 43

Wachm W Kubryn 1 p art Ppanc 4th March 1944 age 42
Polish Forces

Register of Polish War graves -
Władysław Zajac, born 16.6.1900, Niwce, Piotkrów Dist

Władysław Kubryn, born 5.10.1901, Łódź
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote


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Mjr M Zawadzki St ZB Ofic 26th July 1942 age 49

Mjr F M Bienkowski 2 Szwadr Zand 8th February 1943 age 47
Polish Forces

Register of Polish War graves -
Michał Zawadzki, born 24.9.1893, Augustów. or died 21.7.42

Franciszek Maksymilian Bienkowski, born 8.10.1895, Hołyszanka (or Hołoszyńce), Zbaraż Dist., Tarnopol Prov., Cmdr of the 2nd MP Sqdn
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote


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Pplk A K Rosner Szt Gl 14th September 1942 age 45

Por. Kom A Czesnowicki ORP "Dragon" 3rd August 1943
Polish Forces

Register of Polish War graves -
Antoni Karol Rosner, born 14.1.1897, Vienna.

Alojzy Czesnowicki, born 12.9.1893, Czerepuszka, Połock, Russia
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote


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Szer M Zawadzki 1 p art Ppanc 6th December 1942 age 21

Kpl J CieSlak 1 PAC 10th December 1942 age 32
Polish Forces

Register of Polish War graves -
Marian Zawadzki , born 1.1.1921, Kanonicze, Sarny Dist.

Jan CieSlak, born 11.12.1909, Mórka, Śrem Dist
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote


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Mjr J A Ziemba OSR PR OKUP 31st December 1944 age 49

Por W B Bobinski KE ofic 3rd January 1945 age 54
Polish Forces

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Juliusz August Ziemba, born 12.8.1895, Krosno

Witold Bogumił Bobinski, born 5.8.1890, Łąckie (or Łącko) Szlacheckie, Tłumacz Dist., Stanisławów Prov.,
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


More photos of the Polish stones
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Yugoslav stone.


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A Basagic 10th October 1945 Yugoslav Forces
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only Czech stone

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Jaroslav Prachar NPOR. TEL Czech Army 14.5.1910 24.7.1942
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:45 pm    Post subject: Other Polish graves Reply with quote



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In memory of Zygmunt Kuske Chief Engineer of M/S Batory born 16 September 1905 at Zdunska WOL A Poland died 13 December 1944 at Edinburgh

Grave can be found in Section G


On 21st June 1941, on board MS Batory, whilst she was in Glasgow 4 of her crew were presented with the Cross of Valour by Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, President of Poland in exile.
From the left: Captain Zygmunt Deyczakowski, and Zygmunt Kuska officer, ship's doctor Basil Abramovich and KO Borchardt - I mate.


The M/S Batory was a large (14,287 BRT) ocean liner of the Polish merchant fleet, named after Stefan Batory, the famous sixteenth-Century king of Poland.

She was built at the Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico Monfalcone Shipyard in Trieste, Italy, under an arrangement where part of her payment was made in shipments of coal from Poland. She was among the most notable tourist attractions of the Polish seaside and among the best-known Polish ships of the time. She was launched on 8 July 1935. The ship was powered by 2 sets of Burmeister and Wain diesel engines driving 2 screws giving a speed of 18 knots. She began regular service in May 1936 on the Gdynia—New York run, and by 1939 she had carried over 30,000 passengers.

Mobilized at the outbreak of World War II, she served as a troop transport and a hospital ship by the Allied Navy for the rest of the war. In June to July, 1940 she secretly transported much of Britain's gold reserves (₤40 million) from Greenock, Scotland to Montreal, Canada for safekeeping. In August to September of that year, she transported 700 British children to Australia for safekeeping. After that journey she was nicknamed the "singing ship". In the same year she, along with M/S Chrobry, transported allied troops to Norway. She participated in the evacuation of Dunkirk, taking aboard 2,500 persons. Later she took as many as 6,000 people in one evacuation.

She was involved in the invasion of Oran in Algeria in 1942, transported troops to India and the invasions of Sicily and southern France, where she was the flagship of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army. She came under attack several times from the ground and the air, but managed to escape serious damage and was dubbed "the lucky ship".

Dubbed the Lucky Ship for her military career during World War II, she was a sister to the less fortunate MS Piłsudski which was sunk in November 1939.

Returned to Poland in 1946, she continued her civilian service, transporting such eminents as Ryszard Kapuściński. From May 1949 through January 1951, she was the subject of several political incidents in which dockers and shipyard workers in the United States refused to unload cargo from her, or to service the ship by drydocking and painting. After these incidents, she was withdrawn from the North Atlantic route, refurbished at Hepburn for tropic service, and sailed in August 1951 from Gdynia and Southampton to Bombay and Karachi, via Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, and Suez. In 1957, she returned to the North Atlantic route. She continued in service until 1971, when she was scrapped in Hong Kong.


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Waclaw Pac-Pomarnacki Major W.P zm 25.5.1955

Grave found in Section G.
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Janusz De Beaurain General Bryg Pilot-Obs, INZ Zolniekz 1 Brygandy Legionow 25.XII.1893 - 23. XII. 1959

His grave can be found in the small section B.

Janusz de Beaurain (born 25 December 1883 in Warsaw , died. 23 December 1959 in Edinburgh ) - Polish engineer , Brigadier General observer of the Polish Army .

He was the son of Charles de Beaurain a Psychiatrist and Zofia Kosmowskich. He graduated from the University of Lvov. From August 1914-1916 he served in the Polish Legions - 1st Regiment of Artillery. As a result of efforts to create the Legion Flight Squadron he was sent to the Austrian Military Aviation School, where he qualified as an Air Observer. After qualification he was sent to the Italian front with 34 Squadron to gain experience. From May- Aug 1917 he served again in the 1st Artillery Regiment of the Polish Legion. After the crisis of the Polish Legion he entered the Polish Secret Military Organisation.

On 2nd Nov 1918 he participated in the takeover of the Lewandowka airport in Lviv, where he made 8 sorties. As a Lt Observer he fought in the defence of Lvov in the Polish-Ukrain War. During an arial mission on Sokoliniki on the 12th Nov 1918 he was wounded in the hand/arm by a bullet.
In March 1919, after recuperation from his wounds he was appointed Chief of Staff HQ Air Force Command and in May 1919 was appointed Inspector of the Air Force. Between 1919-1920 he was deputy head of the Aviation Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs. Between 1920 and 1921 he enrolled as a student at the Aviation School in Paris. On graduation he returned to Poland where he was appointed to the position of Deputy Manager of the Central Aviation factory in Warsaw, where on 1st March 1925 he was appointed its Head of Technical Services for Air Force of Poland. From 1928-1932 he was at the Institute of aviation Technical Research, then in April 1929 he was appointed Commander of the 1st Corps Aviation in Warsaw. Subsequently from Nov 1935 he became the Deputy Commander of Aviation. Then in March 1939, together with Brigadier General Ludomil Rayskim, was dismissed from his post.
After the September Campaign he escaped to France where he served in the French Air Force from Feb-June 1940. He then escaped to Scotland where he was stationed at a camp in Rothesay Isle of Bute until Jan 1942. He remained in scotland till he died.

Promotions
Ensign - 15 Dec 1915
2nd Lt - 1 May 1916
Lt - 1917
Captain - March 1919
Lt Col - 3 May 1922, seniority from 1 June 1919
Colonel - 31 March 1924, seniority from 1 July 1923
Brig. Gen - 19 March 1937.

Orders and decorations
Military Order of the Silver Cross of Military Virtue (Highest Polish Military order)
Independence Cross
Officer's Cross of Order of the Rebirth of polish
Cross of Valour (4 times)
Gold Cross of Merit
Field Observer badge


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Dr Zenen Kogay Lekarz Ppor. Re_ Piech Zolnierz 11 Bryg Legiono Oficer Bryg Karpackiej zm 23.5.1962

According to a translation from polish he was an Officer in the Carpathian Legion of the Polish Army.

His grave can be found in the small section B.
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____staw Holzer Colonel (Polish Army) +5.9.1969

His grave can be found in the small section B.
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