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ORP "Kujawiak"
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A commemorative plate in the Kalkara Naval Cemetery in Malta, recalling heroic end of the Polish pilots and mariners who lost their lives during WWII in the Defence of Malta 1942-1943. Malta, 'the British unsinkable carrier in the Mediterranean' played a significant role in World War II serving as an important base for the Allied submarines and surface vessels as well as fighter and bomber squadrons of the Royal Air Force that managed to thwart supplies for German forces in Africa from reaching their destination. Apart from the air force, eight Polish warships (six destroyers: Kujawiak, Garland, Piorun, Błyskawica, Ślązak, Krakowiak, and two submarines, Dzik and Sokół) participated in war operations around the Mediterranean defending and protecting Malta. There are some Polish airmen buried in Kalkara, and the two submariners as well. The commemorative plate is also dedicated to the sailors from ORP Kujawiak. The ORP Kujawiak was a Hunt-class destroyer, built by Vickers Armstrong in Tyne. It was commissioned to the Polish Navy in June 1941. The destroyer, participating in unfortunate Operation Harpoon, was sunk on 16 June 1942 after running into a mine near Valletta, while coming to help the other destroyer which hit a mine too, HMS Badsworth. The bodies of the thirteen sailors killed on board ORP Kujawiak have never been recovered, and they rest in the wreck of their ship four miles from the Maltese coast. ORP Kujawiak sailed 32,000 sea miles, had 11 patrols, 4 Atlantic convoys, 69 coastal convoys, 50 times she fought with enemy planes and shot down one plane (Ju-88) and probably 4 more.


ORP "Sokół"
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Kalkara Naval Cemetery in Matla. The grave of Wacław Kostuch, a Polish submariner serving on ORP Sokół. Sokół was a lucky boat and during her 32 war patrols she never lost a man. Wacław Kostuch was accidentally shot dead by a British soldier, who was messing around with an Italian pistol, his war booty. ORP Sokół (Falcon), the 'U' Class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, was one of the two Polish submarines operating in the Mediterranean Sea during the Second World War. On January 19, 1941 the Polish banner was raised and the boat, commanded by Cmdr. Borys Karnicki, was moved to Portsmouth. There she spent half a year patrolling the Bay of Biscay off the French port of Brest. In September she was moved to Malta, where she was attached to the 10th Submarine Flotilla. During her wartime service ORP Sokół sank 15 enemy vessels, including the Italian merchant Balilla (2469 GRT) north-west of Sicily, the Italian passenger vessel (in German service) Eridania (7095 GRT) off Cape Promontore, and the German submarine chaser Möwe north of Crete. Her most famous action was however forcing the anti-submarine nets and entering the port of Navarino, where she damaged the Italian destroyer Aviere. She was attacked by Italian torpedo boats and destroyers, but all of the depth charges missed and the ORP Sokół managed to escape from the enemy harbour. She was returned to the Royal Navy in July 1945.


Kalkara Naval Cemetery
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The Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery in Kalkara, which once belonged to the Admiralty, is divided into two sections, Protestant and Roman Catholic. The first person to be buried at the Kalkara cemetery was in 1903. There are also 1,196 dead from the First and Second World War buried at the cemetery and another 2,500 graves of people who died outside the two World War periods. Most of the 351 Commonwealth burials of the First World War form a triangular plot in the Protestant section. Among those buried in the cemetery are 44 men from HMS Egmont, the depot ship at Malta, and 22 who died when HMS Russell was sunk by a mine off Malta in April 1916. Most of the 694 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War are also in the Protestant section in a plot near the entrance, but there is another group in the Roman Catholic section. The rest are scattered. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission also cares for 1,445 non-war burials in the cemetery, and 137 war graves of other nationalities (including graves of the Polish airmen and sailors fallen in combat for Malta between 1942-1943).


Kalkara Naval Cemetery
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Graves of the Polish and British airmen from No. 138 Squadron RAF in the Kalkara Naval Cemetery, Malta. A Halifax 'NF-Q' four-engined bomber belonging to No. 138 Special Duties Squadron, arrived at Malta from the Middle East, en route to England via Gibraltar. On 17th December 1942, after the plane had been re-fuelled it took off in the dark from Luga airfield at around 4.a.m. and shortly after it was airborne and had passed over Zeitun, a loud explosion was heard and it crashed onto fields and caught fire. The crew and all the passengers were killed. The six man crew were all Polish serving in the Royal Air Force, F/O Krzysztof Dobromirski, F/O Zbigniew Idzikowski, F/O Stanisław Pankiewicz, F/Sgt Alfred Kleniewski, Sgt Roman Wysocki, and F/Sgt Oskar Zieliński. Among the passengers were Major Lord Allen Bathurst Apsley, Major Arthur Millar (Indian Army), three RAF Officers and six RAF airmen from 138 Squadron.


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Gordon Crane my greatgreat Uncle. Born and lived in Wolverton, Bucks. He worked at the McCorquodale printing works, where he met Lily Moore. He was killed on HMS Havock on 22nd March 1942 (during the Second Battle of Sirte, attacked by the Italian battleship Littorio) and is buried in the Kalkara Naval Cemetery, Malta. The inscription on his grave reads: Arthur C.Gordon CRANE, OS, P/JX247329, HMS Havock, aged 30 years, the son of Harry Emanuel and Elizabeth Crane. The husband of Lilian Violet Crane, of Wolverton, Buckinghamshire. Died 22nd March 1942


The entrance of the Commonwealth Cemetary
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The Japanese navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery. The phot was taken 2002. This year was the centennial anniversary of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.


The German grave
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The German navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery


The Eternal Watch
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Kalkara Naval Cemetery, Malta.


The German grave
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The German navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery


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The Japanese navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery


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The Japanese navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery


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The Japanese navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery


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The Japanese navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery


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The Japanese navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery


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The Japanese navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery


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The Japanese navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery


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The Japanese navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery


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The Japanese navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery


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The Japanese navy grave in the former Royal Navy cemetery