Polish War Graves Wellshill Cemetery Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of Polish War Graves and Memorial on ancestry visit to Wellshill cemetery in, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. During the Second World War, Perth's main cemetery, Wellshill Cemetery, was enlarged to provide space for the war dead of the Free Polish Forces based in Scotland. The graves are in a special section of the cemetery. The gravestones have the Polish eagle engraved on them, and at the entrance to the section is a Polish war memorial inscribed as follows, ETERNAL GLORY TO THE POLISH SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN 1939-1945. FOR OUR FREEDOM AND YOURS CHWAŁA ŻOŁNIERZOM POLSKIM POLEGŁYM W LATACH 1939-1945 ZA NASZĄ WOLNOŚĆ I WASZĄ RODACY

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