Polish servicemen honoured on armistice day

POLISH families remembered their own war dead as well as British servicemen and women on Remembrance Sunday.
The Southport Anglo-Polish Society and the Polish Combatants Association gathered at the war memorial on Lord Street on Remembrance Sunday and laid wreaths.
Members of the Anglo-Polish society then went to the Garden of Remembrance to watch Sefton Council chief executive Graham Haywood lay a wreath on the new stone memorial to Polish war victims.
Armistice Day itself has a double significance for Polish people as it is also Polish Independence Day.

Society members went to an Armistice Day service in Formby on Tuesday to pay tribute to six Polish airmen who died while serving at Woodvale air station.
Beata Kowalska, the society's treasurer, said: "On Remembrance Sunday we feel it is important to remember British and Polish soldiers who fought in World War Two.
"My father Stanislav Sobolewski, who was in the Polish cadet force during World War Two, died earlier this year so the ceremony was particularly poignant for us.
"He used to lay a wreath every year as chairman of the Polish Combatants Association. Our daughter Ligia laid a wreath in his memory."