Tombstone of Bohdan Geisler, Brompton Cemetery, London, photo Bartłomiej Gutowski, 2023
Licencja: CC BY-SA 4.0, Źródło: Fundacja Pomoc Polakom na Wschodzie

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Tombstone of Bohdan Geisler, Brompton Cemetery, London, photo Bartłomiej Gutowski, 2023
Licencja: CC BY-SA 4.0, Źródło: Fundacja Pomoc Polakom na Wschodzie

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ID: NGR-015869-P/112837

Tombstone of Bohdan Geisler

London | United Kingdom

Brompton Cemetery

ID: NGR-015869-P/112837

Tombstone of Bohdan Geisler

London | United Kingdom

Burial place originally marked by a cross on a banded stele. Cross perpetuated, lies on gravestone. The stele closed with a stepped band. On the stele an engraved inscription. At the foot of the band at the corners two posts. Lead-filled letters. The whole on a concrete foundation.

Inscription:

Ś. P. / BOHDAN MARIA GEISLER / PŁK. DYPL. / ZMARŁ 28.2.1957. //.

Related persons:

Bohdan Geisler

Time of origin:

1957-1959

Lokalizacja nagrobka:

Sector number J

Dimensions:

46 x 77 x 197 cm

Additional dimensions:

stele: 46 x 77, plate height 8, cross: 69 x 36 x 11, posts: 13 (width?)

Materials:

concrete/jewel concrete, limestone, lead

Additional Information about materials:

white limestone

State of preservation:

mosses, lichens, fragmented structure, cavities

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

The cross is preserved in two parts. The gravestone is located under a spreading larch tree whose branches touch the stone which was probably the direct cause of the overturning and breaking of the cross.

Supplementary bibliography:

catalogue card prepared on the basis of documentation prepared by Małgorzata Sołtys and Izabela Gkagkanis, in: "Elaboration of the state of preservation of governmental graves in Great Britain", Warsaw 2022 (typescript kept in the Foundation Aid to Poles in the East)

Keywords:

stele, headband, gravestone monument

Date of documentation:

2022

Publikacja:

11.06.2023

Author of the documentation sheet:

dr Magdalena Olszewska

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