Lidzbark Warmiński War Cemetery
The Lidzbark Warmiński War Cemetery near Markajmy , a suburb of Lidzbark Warmiński in Poland, is a military cemetery from the time of the First World War . Around 2800 prisoners of war from the German prisoner-of-war camp in Heilsberg were buried here. For the most part, Russian prisoners of war were interned here, as well as a small number of British prisoners of war.
Historians assume an overcrowded camp, in which the prisoners had to live in poor hygienic conditions and work with poor nutrition, so that many fell ill and died. The dead were buried in unmarked mass graves in the cemetery. 39 British soldiers died in the camp hospital between August 1918 and December 1918. The last of the soldiers died there after the end of the war after they were unable to return to their homeland due to illness and were also buried there. The cemetery was maintained until the 1960s, but the increasing decline led to its abandonment.
In the spring of 2014 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission erected a new memorial in the old cemetery for the dead British soldiers who had been commemorated in the Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery in Malbork .
Individual evidence
- ↑ World War One Heilsberg prisoner of war cemetery restored on BBC News May 16, 2014, accessed May 18, 2014
- ↑ The 'Heilsberg 39': Remembering England's WW1 prisoners of war on BBC News, May 16, 2014, accessed May 18, 2014
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- Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery details Lidzbark Warmiński War Cemetery
Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′ 40.5 ″ N , 20 ° 36 ′ 29.1 ″ E