Pålsjö War Cemetery

On Pålsjö Cemetery in Helsingborg (entrance at Ringstorpsvägen/Kullavägen–Christer Boijes väg) you find one of the few war cemeteries in Sweden. A number of WW2 foreign aviators are buried there. Here you find pictures and texts on the tombstones.

If you knew any of the persons buried here, or if you have information about them, please send me your story.

Commonwealth War Graves:

SWEDEN IN THE TWO WORLD WARS

Although its neutrality was respected in the two World Wars,
there are Commonwealth burials in Sweden of both these Wars.

1914–1918

The 73 burials in four cemeteries and churchyards are almost all
of sailors whose bodies were washed ashore on the south west
coast. The great majority of these were casualties from the
Battle of Jutland in which, on 31^st May 1916, the British Grand
Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet fought the greatest naval
engagement of the First World War. The battle took place to the
west of the entrance to the Skagerrak and is known in Sweden
as the Battle of the North Sea.

1939–1945

No fewer than 113 of the 121 casualties of the Second World
War were airmen lost in aircraft which fell over Sweden and the
surrounding seas during raids on the German held territories of
Norway, Denmark and Finland. They are buried in 9 cemeteries
and churchyards in the south of the country.

HALSINGBORG (PALSJO) MUNICIPAL CEMETERY

All the burials in the Commonwealth plot here are of airmen.
36 of them are British, 9 Canadian, 2 Australian and 1 South African.

THIS PLOT
WAS CONSTRUCTED AND IS MAINTAINED BY
THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION

German War Graves:
Deutsche Kriegsgräber:

Memorial plate

ALS OPFER DES
ERSTEN UND ZWEITEN
WELTKRIEGES
RUHEN HIER 93
DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN
SOM OFFER FÖR
FÖRSTA OCH ANDRA
VÄRLDSKRIGET
VILAR HÄR 93
TYSKA SOLDATER