Memorial General Wladyslaw Sikorski Gibraltar

This memorial plaque commemorates the Polish general Wladyslaw Sirkorski, prime minister and commander-in-chief of the Polish forces in exile, who died in a crash at Gibraltar on 4 July 1943. The text on the memorial plaque reads: [i]"IN EARLY JULY 1943, GENERAL WLADYSLAW SIKORSKI PRIME MINISTER AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE POLISH FORCES IN EXILE STOPPED AT GIBRALTAR ON HIS WAY FROM CAIRO TO LONDON. ON THE NIGHT OF THE 4 JULY 1943, A BRITISH BOMBER WITH GENERAL SIKORSKI ON BOARD CRASHED INTO THE SEA SHORTLY AFTER TAKE-OFF, THE CAUSE OF THIS MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENT HAS NEVER BEEN ASCERTAINED; A FACT WHICH HAS GIVEN RISE TO MANY SPECULATIONS, DOUBTS AND RUMOURS. AT THE END OF THIS TUNNEL, DOUGLAS F. MARTIN, A RADIO-OPERATOR WITH SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE, HAD HIS TRANSMITTING STATION, ROUGHLY FOUR HUNDRED METRES FROM THE PLANE. HE WAS THE ONLY WITNESS WHO ACTUALLY SAW THE CRASH."[/i] The memorial plaques can be found in the "Great Siege Tunnels".