🏟️ 1st Armoured Division Memorial

The 1st Armoured Division Memorial is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, located on Invalids Square, at the intersection with Polish Armed Forces Avenue, within the neighbourhood of Old Żoliborz. It is dedicated to the 1st Armoured Division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West, which fought on the Western Front of the Second World War, participating in the Allied liberation of Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. The monument was designed by sculptor Jerzy Sikorski and architect Andrzej Kiciński, and was unveiled on 30 September 1995. It is in the form of a column on a pedestal. It features a sculpture of an eagle with spread wings, mounted at ⅓ of the height of the column, and the sculpture of a helmet and wings of a Polish hussar, which were the symbols of the divisions, and the tank tracked treads wrapped around the column.