Quakenbrück

There are three sandstone crosses in the plot. On the middle and largest one there is an inscription:

ZA

WOLNOŚĆ

NASZĄ I WASZĄ

SIERŻ

JOZEF BAJORSKI

1902–1946

FOR

OUR AND YOUR

FREEDOM

SERGEANT MAJOR

JOZEF BAJORSKI

1902–1946

Below there is the soldier's cross and dates 1939-1945.

Data based on archival records:

BOJARSKI JÓZEF Sergeant Major

Reserve Holding Unit

* 29.6.1902 Muniana distrcit Jarosław

† 2.1.1946 Quckenbrück Canadian Hospital

R-C. Serv. Number 1902/7/I-275

The data in the left-hand column comes from archival materials, in the right column - from the crosses (original spelling preserved). The upper two records come from the cross on the left-hand side and the other two from the cross on the right:

none    SERGEANT MAJOR TADEUS JESIONKIEWICZ 1916–1946

SCHRODER ANASTAZY Dragoon    DRAGOON ANASTAZY SCHRÖDER 1926–1945

10th Dragoon Regiment

* 17.8.1926 Szanwald district Chojnice

† 23.6. 1845 Quckenbrück Canadian Hospital.

WIZNER KAZIMIERZ Sergeant Major    CPL KAZIMIERZ WIZNER 1921–1946

131 Wing HQ-RAF.

* 15.2.1921 Popiele district Drohobycz

† 23.7.1946 39 British Military Hospital Oldenburg

none    CPL JÓZEF JANKIEWICZ 1916–1945

A few meters from the crosses there is a tombstone made of dark granite with the following inscription:

S+P

HELENA

OLSZEWSKA

z domu Krawczykówna

Ppor. AK i PWSK

ur. 1.8. VII 1913. – zm. 28.VI. 1947.

„Nunc autem manem

fides, spes caritas,

tria haec maior

autem horum est

caritas”

Mojej Jasnej – Mąż

R.I.P.

HELENA

OLSZEWSKA

née Krawczykówna

Second-Lieutenant Home Army and Women’s Auxiliary Service

born 1.8. VII 1913. – died 28.VI. 1947.

„Nunc autem manem

fides, spes caritas,

tria haec maior

autem horum est

caritas”

To my Bright One - Husband

Data from the archives:

OLSZEWSKA HELENA née Krawczyk Second-Lieutenant, Home Army - Women’s Auxiliary Service. "Soldier's Journal" Reserve Holding Unit, 1st Polish Armoured Division

* 18.7.1913

† 28.4.1947