Frédéric Chopin
Composer. Born Zelazowa Wola, Poland of a French emigrant father and Polish mother. Left Poland aged 20, never to return. Despite his long romantic liaison with novelist George Sand (Aurore Dudevan...
3 memorials
Esther Malka Cohen
Killed as a result of a 13 October 1940 air raid on Coronation Avenue. Esher Malka Cohen was born in 1885 in Poland. The census return form completed by her husband on 19 June 1921 shows her as ...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Joseph Conrad
Novelist, considered one of the greatest writers in English, despite it not being his mother-tongue. Born into a noble Polish family in what is now Ukraine. Working on ships he came to Britain in 1...
2 memorials
ORP Conrad
Former Cruiser in the Polish Navy. ORP stands for Okret Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Ship of the Polish Republic).
1 memorial
Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathematician and astronomer. Â Argued that the Sun, not the Earth, was the centre of the universe.
1 memorial
ORP Dragon
Former Cruiser in the Polish Navy. ORP stands for Okret Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Ship of the Polish Republic).
1 memorial
Simon Dragovitch
Simon Dragovitch was born on 11 November 1866 in Warsaw, Russia (now Poland). On the census that was taken on 31 March 1901 he was shown as aged 33 years and a coat tailor living in three rooms at...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
ORP Dzik
Former Submarine in the Polish Navy. ORP stands for Okret Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Ship of the Polish Republic).
1 memorial
Helena Aniela Zdzislawa Fedorowicz
We could find no information about Helena Fedorowicz. The memorial says that she fought for her family, the Woodstock Road Association and the Polish people. We guessed that she lived in Woodstock ...
1 memorial
Elizabeth Finn
Born to missionary parents in Warsaw. Aged 72 she and her daughter Constance founded the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association. Died at home in Brook Green.
1 memorial
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