On Saturday, 23 November 2019 at 11am the gravestone of Polish army General Mikołaj Osikowski will be unveiled at Hayfield Cemetery in Kirkcaldy.

The ceremony will be the culmination of efforts by Fife Council and the Polish Consulate in Edinburgh to mark the resting place of Gen Osikowski, who served in the Polish army created by General Józef Haller and fought in the famous 1920 Battle of Warsaw, which saw Poles stop the spread of the Bolshevik revolution to the West.

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Gen Osikowski retired from military service in 1923 and lived in Lithuania until the Second World War forced him to flee to the West. He eventually came to Scotland, settling in Kirkcaldy, where he died in 1950, unable to return to his homeland.

Present at the ceremony will be the Provost of Fife Cllr Jim Leisham, Lord-Lieutenant of Fife Robert Balfour, Ambassador of Poland Arkady Rzegocki, Consul General of Poland in Edinburgh Ireneusz Truszkowski, Piotr Całbecki, Marshal of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian region of Poland (part of which was defended by Gen Osikowski during the Battle of Warsaw), representatives of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, Vice-Chairman Jan Baster and Section Director Adam Siwek, and the family of Gen Osikowski.

All welcome.

Source: Polish Embassy UK Press Office