{Beneath the Polish coat of arms and beside the emblem of the Polish underground resistance movement:}
Major-General Stanisław Sosabowski CBE Commander 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade at Arnhem 1944, lived here 1950 - 1960.
Embassy of the Republic of Poland in conjunction with Polish Heritage Society UK
W4, St George's Road, 2
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Stanisław Sosabowski
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A brigade under the command of Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski, created in...
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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Stanisław Sosabowski
Exists to remember, record and propagate among the wider British public the c...
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for providing the photographs of the plaques.
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