Renewing Military Cemeteries in Lesser Poland

Altogether 1357 soldiers are buried in the military cemeteries of Staszkówka, Biesna and Zborowice. They all fell in the Galicia theatre of war (the area of today’s Poland) during the Austro-Hungarian winter campaign in early 1915. Of them, the names of 871 ones are known, and more than 710 are Hungarian soldiers killed in action. The majority of the soldiers buried here was fighting in the ranks of the 9th and 16th Hungarian Infantry Regiments, and the sacrifice they made in the face of the Russian army resulted in the famous Gorlice breakthrough.

On 2nd June, the completed memorials were taken over by a team from the the MoD Public Relations Office War Memorial Service Directorate. The implementation of the project has been supported by the Ministry of Defence of Hungary.

The war grave care staff of the MoD Public Relations Office and the Lesser Poland Voivodeship office concluded an agreement on the restoration of the three WWI military cemeteries in 2015. The second phase in the cemetery restoration project is expected to be completed on 15th November, and the completely restored cemeteries will open at the end of November 2016.