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Breda Polish Military Cemetery

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Polish War Cemetery situated facing the Texaco gas station at the Ettensebaan in Breda, Breda Municipality, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

"On this field of honour are Polish soldiers who died in the Netherlands during World War Two buried. They originally belonged to the divisions of the Polish land and air forces who in September 1939, after the capture of the Polish by the German army escaped to France, where the Polish government also found shelter. After the capitulation of the French army in June 1940, the Polish soldiers succeeded again to escape from German war inprisoning. They found their way from Spain and Gibraltar to reach England safely. There they formed among many the First Polisher Armour division under command of General Major Stanislaw Maczek and the First Polish Independent Parachute brigade.

After the landing in Normandy in June 1944 these Polish soldiers fought among the Allied forces for the liberation of West Europe. In the Netherlands they fought in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, West Brabant, in the battle for Arnhem, Groningen and Drenthe. More than 500 Polish soldiers and pilots who were killed during World War Two found their last restplace in our country, 163 of them here in Breda, which was liberated by the First Polish Armour division on the 29th of October 1944."

Source: https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/325/Polish-War-Cemetery-Breda.htm

Helpful links:

https://polishtracesaroundtheworld.org/2012/07/31/a-little-piece-of...

http://www.polishwargraves.nl/bred/breda.htm

161 Polish killed soldiers are resting in the Polish Field of Honour situated along the "Ettensebaan" at Breda in 157 graves at this moment.

NIEZNANY ŻOŁNIERZ

ARKUSZEWSKI Kazimierz

BASIERAK Henryk

BIELINIEC Stanisław

BOKROŚ Jan

BLADOWSKI Feliks Stanisław

BŁOTKO Tadeusz

BORKOWSKI Józef

BOROŃ Józef

BULERSKI Stefan

BURSAC Michał

CHĘTNICKI Stefan

CHOLEWA-KLECZKOWSKI M.

CHWISTEK Jan

CICHOCKI Henryk

CIEŚLAR Edward

CZAJKO Józef

CZĘSNY Alfred

CZUNKIEWICZ Michał

DEC Adam Julian

DENEK Władysław

DOBRAS Jan

DUCHACZEK Jan

DUDEK Antoni

EBERTOWSKI Kazimierz

EMILIAŃCZYK Stefan

FABIAN Marcin

FEIL Isaak Józef

FREDECKI Stanisław

GAJDZIK Leon

GALIŃSKI Leon

GAWLICKI Zbigniew

GERMASIŃSKI Karol

GIERGIEL Alfred

GRABANIA Tadeusz

GRINHOLZ Augustyn

GROSS Konrad

GRUTZA Augustyn

GRYT Gerard

GRZYB Franciszek

GZELL Henryk Leon

HAPKA Łucjan

HAWRYSZCZUK Józef

HELDT Jan

HERMAN Jacek

JAGŁA Stanisław

JANETA Paweł

JANKOWSKI Bernard

JANKOWSKI Tadeusz

JUCHTA Franciszek

JURAŚ Stanisław

KACPEREK Henryk

KACZOR Jan

KACZOROWSKI Teofil

KAŁWA Franciszek

KAMIŃSKI Stanisław

KANTOR Gustaw

KAPUSNIAK Stefan

KĘDZIERSKI Stanisław

KIJAS Stanisław

KIJORA Roch

KLENCZEWSKI Jan

KOSZTUBAJDA Stefan Jan

KOTT Stanisław

KOWALCZYK Stanisław

KOWALSKI Alfons

KOZAKIEWICZ Jan Andrzej

KOZANECKI Witold

KOZIOŁEK Jerzy Kazimierz

KOZŁOWSKI Bernard

KRAWCZYK Józef

KRZYKAŁA Paweł

KUCZMA Tomasz

KUKLA Józef

KWIATKOWSKI Alfons

LAMKOWSKI Bernard

LANC Paweł

LASKOWSKI Bolesław

LEPPERT Władysław

LESISZ Edward

MACIEJEWSKI Ludwik

MAJOR Julian

MALINOWSKI Piotr

MARENDOWSKI Antoni

MICHALIK Władysław

MICHLIŃSKI Kazimierz

MIK Jan

MILLER Franciszek

MISZTURAK Stanisław

MIŚ Alojzy

MOSLER Franciszek

MYSZKE Jan

MYSZOR Marian

MYTKOWSKI Bronisław

NAGÓRSKI Paweł

NICHNEROWICZ Józef

NIKLAS Zenon

NOWACKI Franciszek

NOWAK Stanisław

OLMA Jan

ORZEŁEK Czesław

OSIKA Witold

PALUCH Ignacy

PARNIEWICZ Franciszek

PAWŁOWSKI Władysław

PERTEK Leon

PICK Edward

PIETRUCZYK Bazyli

PIKSA Erwin

PLUCIŃSKI Wacław

POROMBKA Edmund

PRĘTKOWSKI Józef

PRYSZCZ Karol

PSCHEGALIŃSKI Władysław

RATAJCZYK Marian

REMBECKI Franciszek

ROGOWSKI Henryk

ROMER Stefan

ROSENHOLZ

RUCHAŁA Antoni

RUPEK Franciszek

SIEK Kazimierz Andrzej

SIEROCKI Wacław

SIEROŃSKI Stanisław

SIUDA Edmund

SKRZYDŁO Jan

SMOLIK Jerzy

STACHOŃ Bolesław Feliks

STAŃKO Jan

STREŃCZAK Zdzisław

STUWE Mieczysław

SUDAK Antoni

SWOŁEK Józef

SZAREK Jan

SZCZEPAŃSKI Bernard

SZCZEPAŃSKI Jan

SZCZEPANOWSKI Jerzy S.

SZCZOTKA Karol

SZCZUKOWSKI Alfons

SZUMLICZ Wiktor

SZYMAŃSKI Władysław

SZYRWIEL Bronisław

ŚCIUBIAK Tadeusz Jakub

ŚLIWIŃSKI Jan

ŚLIZ Jakob

TALAŚKA Józef

TAPP William Wisdom

TARKA Jan

TRESZKA Józef

TRYBUS Konrad

TUREK Michał

ULCZAK Józef

WESOŁOWSKI Marian

WIRKUS Bronisław

WIŚNIEWSKI Janusz

WIŚNIEWSKI Walenty

WOLTER Roman

(S)ZAJĄC Stanisław

ZAKRZEWSKI Jan

ZALCER Kazimierz

ZMARZŁY Józef

ŻYMELKA Franciszek

You also find there General S. Maczek's grave, who died at the age of 102. In 1994 his last wish: to be buried among his killed soldiers, was fulfilled.