Sick thugs smash graves of Poles and Polish soldiers

  • Headstones have been destroyed at Blockley Station Road Cemetery in Evesham
  • A sign urging public to show respect whilst visiting the facility was also defaced
  • Worcestershire graveyard is burial site of 122 Second World War Polish nationals 
  • Polish campaign group,  British Poles, called it incident ‘a sad day for community’

Graves including those of Polish war heroes who battled Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime have been destroyed at a cemetery in Worcestershire. 

Sick thugs are thought to be behind the wreckage at Blockley Station Road Cemetery in Evesham.

Headstones have been smashed and signs urging the public to respect the facility have been defaced. 

Four headstones can be seen smashed in the Blockley Station Road Cemetery in Evesham, Worcestershire

A destroyed gravestone lies in pieces on the ground at the resting place for Poles and Polish soldiers

A destroyed gravestone lies in pieces on the ground at the resting place for Poles and Polish soldiers

British Poles, a project aimed at increasing the British-Polish voice within UK politics, tweeted pictures of the damage to the graves, calling it a 'sad day for the community'.

British Poles, a project aimed at increasing the British-Polish voice within UK politics, tweeted pictures of the damage to the graves, calling it a ‘sad day for the community’.

The cemetery is the resting place of 122 Second World War Polish nationals who lived in the nearby disused army camps of Springhill and Northwick Park.

Among them were soldiers who fought in the war alongside British troops. 

British Poles, a project aimed at increasing the British-Polish voice within UK politics, tweeted pictures of the damage to the graves, calling it a ‘sad day for the community’.  



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