Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery

The Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery is a military cemetery in Malbork , Poland. There are a total of 245 graves of British soldiers in the cemetery. 232 graves date from the time of the Second World War, including six graves for soldiers not known by name. 13 graves date from the time of the First World War .

Most of the dead in World War II came from the POW camps Stalag XX B in Malbork, Stalag IA in Stablack and Stalag II D in Stargard and Stalag XX A in Toruń . After the end of the war, the dead were transferred to this cemetery from various local cemeteries where their care could not be guaranteed. The dead of the First World War were transferred to this cemetery from the garrison cemetery in Gdańsk in the 1960s .

In the 1960s, also was Malbork Memorial built, is thought with the 39 British prisoners of war from the time of World War I, on the military cemetery of Lidzbark Warmiński are buried. The care of the graves there could no longer be guaranteed at that time. In spring 2014 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission set up a new memorial there.

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Coordinates: 54 ° 1 ′ 15.9 ″  N , 19 ° 0 ′ 48.7 ″  E