page_title: Duns, Scottish Borders
section_title: Polish War Memorial
hierarchical_section_title: Duns, Scottish Borders / Polish War Memorial
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial to Polish soldiers stationed in Duns 1941-44, who died in battle 1944-45. It was unveiled by General Stanislaw Maczek on 13th September 1991. Note the flower bed in the colours of Poland's national flag.
context_page_description: Duns is a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was the county town of the historic county of Berwickshire.
context_section_description: During the Second World War, the Scottish Borders was home to many Polish soldiers, who had come here to form new regiments prior to returning south to go the front in Europe.  Duns, and the surrounding area, was home to the First and Second Armoured Regiments of the Polish Army, who learned and practised their armoured warfare skills on the moors of Berwickshire.  It was as a tribute to the 127 men of these regiments who died in the conflict, that Polish ex-soldiers and the people of Duns, jointly, paid for the erection of this monument.  It was unveiled in 1981 by their former Commanding Officer, General Maczek.
  As well as this a memorial to Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear which was adopted by the Polish army in 1943, can be found in the Market Square. The memorial was gifted by the twin town of Żagań in Poland and was unveiled in 2016.
caption: Polish War Memorial, Duns
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