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Note:- Clicking on images will enlarge, they are high
quality pictures and therefore may take a while to load. This is to allow detail
to be shown.
Perhaps one of Ruislip's best known landmarks and yet seemingly
with no official page on the internet. The Polish War Memorial is situated adjacent to the roundabout on the A40
at its junction with the A4180, just on the London side of Northolt Aerodrome.
The roundabout is known, unsurprisingly, as the "Polish War Memorial
roundabout" and is signed as such on the A40. The memorial is here as during the second world war there were numerous
Polish (and Canadian) airmen stationed at Northolt. The memorial was
commissioned to commemorate Polish airmen who perished during the
conflict. Read
more here on the RAF Northolt site
More reading about the Polish contribution to the allied forces in WWII Ruislip Online has been pleased to assist the owner of the web
site
Polish War Graves in compiling the
only known definitive list of all those commemorated on this memorial. This
involve my taking pictures of all the plaques and then e-mailing them to the
owner of
Polish War Graves who has then put
them together as a typed, searchable, PDF file. Click on the link to view the
site.
The Polish war memorial The arc showing the names of those remembered, where this can
just be seen behind the top picture
A memorial has also been erected outside
The Orchard public house in Ruislip, to
commemorate the Polish Airman that served here during WWII. Pictures of it are
shown below. 
