COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION

CASUALTIES BURIED IN NEWMARKET CEMETERY
BUT NOT NEWMARKET BORN OR RESIDENT INCLUDING OUR POLISH ALLIES
INCLUDING ALSO SOME FOREIGN NATIONALS FORMERLY BURIED IN NEWMARKET




Another Polish soldier discovered - July 2019
Jan ZMURKIEWICZ, aged 25, No.30/z/1922/iiiW.B?, a private in the 3rd Battalion, Carpathian Rifles, who died at 310 Base Unit at Chippenham on 16th April 1948 of a coronary thrombosis. This was outside the UK criteria for a war grave. He has so far not been traced on any records other than the burial register.
Jan rests behind the Cross of Sacrifice, behind the right hand tree, in grave O:372, which sadly has no headstone. This is immediately to the right of the grave of Christopher FREEMAN (5 months old).

Each year it seems to have been the custom recently for someone (unkown as yet) to visit the Polish military graves and at first they left small lamps, with tea candle inside, at each grave. Since 2021 the custom has changed to tying a red and white (Polish national colours), round each Polish headstone. Attempts so far have failed to find out who does this, which is a pity as the local Polish population should be invited to join our Remembrance Ceremony




An explanation of the "DOLORES CROSS" from New Zealand.. see here


Plan of War Graves section of Cemetery, by the Cross of Sacrifice



BOYACK, Robert Strachan

.....Trooper - 1st Royal Gloucester Hussars - 1940

BROWNE, Anthony John

.....Sergeant -RAF - 215 Sqdn - 1942

CLUBB, Selwyn James

.....F/Off - RNZAF - 75(New Zealand) Sqdn - 1943

CURTIS, Stanley Arthur

.....Sergeant - RAFVR -75 (New Zealand) Sqdn - 1943

CZYZEWSKI, Jozef

.....L/Cpl - 1st Polish Armoured Div. - 1943

FILOCHA, Bronislaw

.....Rifleman - 1st Polish Armoured Div. - 1943

FLOREK, Jan

.....Corporal - 14th Polish Armoured Cavalry - 1943

FRANKLIN, Benjamin

.....Sergeant - RNZAF - 75 (New Zealand) Sqdn - 1942

FREEMAN, Anthony Frederick Adrian

.....Sergeant- 149 Sqdn RAF - 1942

FRITZ, Eugeniusz

.....Sapper - 1st Polish Armoured Division - 1943

GARBIEN, Taduesz

.....Doctor - 1st Polish Armoured Division - 1943

GIBSON, James

.....Private - R.A.S.C. - 1941

HARVEY, Robert

.....Sergeant - RNZAF - 75 (NewZealand) Sqdn - 1943

HENDRICKSON, Wilfred

.....Gunner - Royal Artillery - 1940

HOLDEN, Robert

.....Sergeant - RAFVR - 138 Sqdn - 1942

HOUSTON, Thomas

.....Private - Essex Regiment - 1918

HUGHES, Alfred

.....L.A.C. - RAF - 1942

HURTON, Roderick

.....F/Off - RCAF - 268 Sqdn - 1943

JACKSON, Malcolm

.....Sergeant - RNZAF - A.F.D.U. - 1943

JOHNSTON, John

.....F/Off - RNZAF - 75 (New Zealand) Sqdn - 1943

JUSZCZAK, Konstanty

.....Captain - 14th Polish Amoured Cavalry - 1943

KARCZ, Bronislaw

.....Rifleman - 1st Polish Amoured Division - 1943

KULESZA, Stanislaw

.....Private - Polish H.Q. - 1946

KUSZNIEWICZ, Zbigniew

.....L/Cpl - 10th Polish Mounted Rifles - 1943

KUBICZ, Kazimiers

.....L/Sergeant - 1st Reconn Regt..Polish Army - 1943

LAWRENCE, William

.....Sergeant - RCAF - 75 (New Zealand) Sqdn - 1942

LITTLE, Joseph

.....Fusilier - Royal Scots Fusiliers - 1940

LONG, Byron

.....Flt/Sgt - ATC - 1942

MAZUREK, Nikodem

.....L/Cpl - 1st Polish Armoured Division - 1943

MOFFAT, Bertram

.....W/Off - RCAF - 75 (New Zealand) Sqdn - 1943

MORRIS, Thomas

.....Cpl - Australian Infantry - 1917

MULAWKA, Wladyslaw

.....Corporal - 14th Polish Armoured Cavalry - 1943

NORENIUS, Gunnar

.....Lieutenant - SAAF - 614 Sqdn - 1942

O'CONNOR, Michael

.....Private - Pioneer Corps - 1945

OSTROWSKI, Wladyslaw

.....2nd Lt - 1st Polish Light Artillery - 1943

PELL, George

.....Gunner - Royal Artillery - 1944

PIASKOWSKI, Boleslaw

.....L/Sgt - 1st Polish Armoured Division - 1943

PLANT, Frank

.....Rifleman - King's Royal Rifle Corps - 1941

PYTEL, Izydor

.....Dragoon - 1st Polish Armoured Division - 1943

RAJEWSKI, Eugeniusz

.....F/Off - 309 (Polish) Sqdn - 1943

REDDICLIFFE, Francis

.....Sgt - RAFVR - 75 (New Zealand) Sqdn - 1943

SALOMON, John

.....L/Cpl - Intelligence Corps - 1940

SLOAN, Alexander

.....Sergeant - Cameronians - 1940

SMITH, Joseph

.....Flt/Cadet - RAF 192 NTS - 1918

SOLSKI, Aleksander

.....L/Cpl - 1st Polish Armoured Division - 1943

STUART, Phillip

.....F/Sgt - RCAF - 75 (New Zealand) Sqdn - 1943

SULLIVAN, John

.....Civilian - Norwich - 1942

SZABLEWSKI, Jan

.....2nd Lt - 1st Polish Armoured Division - 1943

TRAUTMAN, Jan

.....L/Cpl - 1st Polish Armoured Division - 1943

WALSH, John

.....W/Off - RNZAF - 75 (New Zealand) Sqdn -1943

WELCH, Harold

.....Sergeant - RNZAF - 75 (New Zealand) Sqdn -1942

WHITCOMBE, William

.....Sergeant - RNZAF - 75 (New Zealand) Sqdn -1942

WOJTASIK, Aloyizy

.....Lancer - 14th Polish Armoured Cavalry - 1943

Other foreign nationals at one time buried in Newmarket




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