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Title
Polish Airmen's Memorial
Date
2001
Medium
bronze & brick
Accession number
TN33_LS_S001
Acquisition method
gift from Stanislaw Jozefiak and friends of Stanislaw Jozefiak
Work type
War memorial
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
27th May 2001
Access
at all times
Inscription description
engraved bronze plaque on front of monument: HERE ON 27/28 MAY 1941 / A WELLINGTON BOMBER / NZ-N OF 304 POLISH SQUADRON / CRASHED AFTER BOMBING THE FRENCH / PORT OF BOULOGNE WHERE IT HAD BEEN / HIT AND BADLY DAMAGED / CREW WHO DIED / F/LT. KUSZCZYNSKI BRONISLAW (PILOT) /P/O. WOROCZEWSKI JAN STANISLAW (PILOT) /F/O. WIECZOREK CEZARY (NAVIGATOR) / SGT. DROZDZ JOZEF (AIR GUNNER) / DROWNED IN THE LA MANCHE CANAL / CREW WHO SURVIVED / SGT. NILSKI JOZEF (W/OP. AIR GUNNER) / SGT. JOZEFIAK STANISLAW (W/OP. AIR GUNNER) / BALED OUT; on a metal plaque on a pedestal next to the monument: IN MEMORY OF / WARRANT OFFICER STANISLAW JOZEFIAK / AIRMAN POLISH AIR FORCES / IN GREAT BRITAIN 1940–1946 / "For Our Freedom and Yours" / PAMIECI / ST. SIERZ. STANISLAWA JOZEFIAKA / LOTNIKA POLSKICH SIL POWIETRZNYCH / W WIELKIEJ BRYTANII W LATACH 1940-1946 / PKMH "ORZEL BIALY" / BRITISH FRIENDS / 28 MAY 2016/ 1919–2015
