All Souls' Day comes to Newark Cemetery on Sunday to commemorate and remember Polish Servicemen
A service of thanks and remembrance for Polish Servicemen who fought for their country — and never returned — takes place in Newark on Sunday.
All Souls’ Day is a traditional commemoration in Poland that sees families place lit candles on the graves of their loved ones.
That day has been adapted to include a service for the Poles buried in Newark Cemetery, who are the majority of the 440 graves that make up the immaculately-kept War Graves Section of Newark Cemetery.
Sunday’s service begins when a small procession of invited dignitaries, who include the High Sheriff of Nottingham, the Lord- Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire, chairman of Newark and Sherwood District Council and the Mayor of Newark, arrive at the cross for 2.45pm to 3pm.
There they will join several hundred Polish Scouts from Nottingham and elsewhere who will have arrived earlier to place, and light, candles by the gravestones — candles that are left lit so they can be seen as daylight dies.
Wreaths will also be laid.
Simon Elmer, event co-ordinator and keen historian of Polish forces fighting in the West from 1940-47, encouraged as many people as possible to join in the paying of homage.
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