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ABERDEENABERDEEN
St Joseph’s RC Church, 2 Tanfield Walk, Aberdeen. An image of the Black Madonna given by Officers and Men of Polish Armoured Train L.

ALYTH, Perthshire ALYTH, Perthshire
Location of this panel currently unknown (March 2019)

ARBROATHARBROATH
Marine Ballroom/Grant’s Shoe Factory – now residential flats. Wall paintings by Polish soldiers covered up but, presumably, intact. See Robert Ostrycharz Polonica in Scotland

BANFFBANFF
Duff House; Polish-language orders on the walls for troops stationed there.

BIGGARBIGGAR
Elphinstone Hotel Sikorski Memorial Plaque

BLAIRGOWRIE BLAIRGOWRIE
Town Hall: Memorial Panel presented by Polish Tank Corps. Image courtesy of Alan McCombe

CARFINCARFIN
Polish Memorial at Carfin Grotto, 100 Newarthill Road, Motherwell

CARSTAIRSCARSTAIRS
Carstairs Junction School: Polish plaque presented by Polish 2nd Signals Squadron

CASTLE MENZIES CASTLE MENZIES
Memorial for Medical Supply Depot for the Polish No. 1 Hospital at Kenmore.

CLYDEBANKCLYDEBANK
Piorun Memorial: near the Titan Crane. Memorial panel attached to riverside fence. Unveiled by Provost William Hendrie and Polish Vice-Consul Michał Zawisza 9th March 2019.

COATBRIDGECOATBRIDGE
Summerlee Heritage Museum: Polish “gorget” or ryngraf featuring an image of Our Lady of Częstochowa presented by Polish General Kukiel with the words, “This banner will speak to new generations of the friendship which will unite our two great nations.”

COUPAR ANGUS COUPAR ANGUS
Memorial Panel affixed to the Town Hall

CROMARTY CROMARTY
Bridge built by Pioneers (engineers) of the Polish 24th Silesian Infantry Brigade over a burn crossing the old west drive of Cromarty House. There are two stone plaques on the upstream side of the bridge piers. The soldiers worshipped in the Old Gaelic Church, now a ruin.

DALMENNY DALMENNY
Three stained glass windows given by Lt. Col. Stanisław Sokolowski, in memory of his mother. The windows were designed by Lalia Dickson in 1942 and installed in Dalmenny Kirk.

DOUGLASDOUGLAS
Three Memorials to Polish units sited in the enclosed Polish Memorial Garden, Main Street, Douglas, South Lanarkshire. The memorials and garden are maintained by the Douglas Gardening Club.

DUNDEEDUNDEE
Memorial plaque outside City Hall

DUNSDUNS
Memorial stone to the men of the Polish 1st Armoured Division in the West.

EARLSFERRY, Fife EARLSFERRY, Fife
Friendship Panel created by Polish artist Zofia Kruszelnicka and Captain Tadeusz Sieczkowski, adjutant, Polish Paratroops garrison in Elie and Earlsferry and situated on the front wall of the Town Hall.

EDINBURGHEDINBURGH
The General Maczek Memorial: City Hall, The Royal Mile. General Stanisław Maczek, Polish 1st Armoured Division. Born Lwów 31.03.1892. Died Edinburgh 11.12.1994. Buried Breda, Holland.

FORFAR, Angus FORFAR, Angus
Market Street

GLASGOWGLASGOW
Polish Naval Association Memorial: Three, stone, standing panels at St Peter’s Cemetery, Dalbeth, engraved with the names of the Association members. Dedicated in 1970.

HADDINGTON TOWN HOUSE HADDINGTON TOWN HOUSE
10th Mounted Rifles plaque

INVERGORDONINVERGORDON
Polish Memorial

KELSOKELSO
Plaque at Kelso War Memorial

KIRRIEMUIRKIRRIEMUIR
Memorial plaques located on the main street.

LEVEN, FIFELEVEN, FIFE
Monuments to 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade and General Sosabowski.

MENSTRIEMENSTRIE
WAR MEMORIAL, Menstrie, near Stirling. Polish panel on the memorial.

PEEBLES PEEBLES
Memorial to Polish Airmen in the gardens of Peebles Hydro.

PERTHPERTH
Wellshill Cemetery.

PRESTWICKPRESTWICK
Polish Naval/Air Memorial: Stone memorial in the grounds of the RAF Association Club, 10 Ardayre Road, Prestwick.

RENFREW RENFREW
St James RC Church, Inchinnan Road. Memorial portrait of Our Lady of Częstochowa and plaque to three Polish airmen from 309 Squadron who were killed by a bomb explosion while trying to extinguish fires during the Clydebank Blitz in March 1941. In October 1982, at a special Mass, a silver plaque in memory of the airmen and the portrait of the Black Madonna was blessed and dedicated by Bishop McGill. The plaque was crafted by a local Polish jeweller, Eugeniusz Wacławski. The airmen are buried in two Polish War Graves in Arkleston Cemetery, Renfrew.

ST ANDREWS ST ANDREWS
Kinburn Park Memorial to General Sikorski.

TENTSMUIR POLISH CAMP TENTSMUIR POLISH CAMP
Tentsmuir Forest, North-East Fife Forestry Commission land.

THANKERTON THANKERTON
Eastend House (Castle) was the onetime HQ of Polish Forces in Scotland.