General Wladyslaw Sikorski was buried in Newark before his body was returned to Poland in 1993.
A statue of a Polish general who died during World War Two has been unveiled in Nottinghamshire.
Gen Sikorski was Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile and commander-in-chief of the Polish armed forces. Gen Sikorski was interred at Newark, near where Polish air squadrons were stationed and where he had unveil the Polish Memorial Cross for Polish airmen buried there two years earlier."I wanted to convey his humanity," he said.
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