KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY (POLAND)
At the end of the Second World War, the graves service of the British Army of the Rhine gathered together Commonwealth graves from all over Poland into three cemeteries, this being the largest. Those buried here died while prisoners of war during the German occupation, most of the graves coming from the cemetery at the large camp at Lamsdorf, Stalag VIIIB (after 1943 known as Stalag 344), where there was a hospital of 450 beds used only for Commonwealth prisoners. Before this hospital came into being the sick at Lamsdorf were treated at the hospital at Langenbielau: those who died were buried in Langenbielau Catholic Cemetery, and these graves were also moved to the Commonwealth plot at Krakow. Other graves brought into the cemetery were those of airmen who lost their lives during the Warsaw supply drop and the bombing of factories, railways and other strategic objectives. Some of these airmen were originally buried in Warsaw. There are now 483 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War buried or commemorated in Krakow Rakowicki Cemetery. There are also 24 non war graves, those of civilian internees (including two Imperial War Graves Commission gardeners) and 15 Polish war graves.
SURNAME
Beesley
FORENAME
Harold Edwin
UNIT
3 Commando (HQ Troop - RSM)
RANK
Warrant Officer First Class
NUMBER
549217
DATE OF DEATH
10th March 1945
AGE
39
GRAVESITE
Krakow Rakowicki Cemetery,Poland 4.B.5
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit 13/18 Royal Hussars,R.A.C.
born...
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