In the seaside town of Portsmouth, England, there is a "Polish Memorial - Soldiers of Gdansk 1834" - commemorating the 212 heroes of the November Uprising who, after 3 years of Prussian captivity, arrived in Portsmouth in 1834. The monument is located in Kingston Cemetery. The idea for the monument, to commemorate the centenary of the first Polish emigration to Britain, was put forward by the Circle of the 4th Legion Infantry Regiment in London, setting up a Building Committee in 1964. The monument consists of three parts: the central one - the tallest one, with the Virtuti Militari Cross on it and a plaque with a name list of soldiers who arrived in the UK on the ship "Marianne"; the left - left - with a bas-relief plaque depicting an ensign of the 4th Regiment of Line Infantry of the Kingdom of Poland carrying a banner, in the background a chaplain under a cross and soldiers walking in formation, with skulls and a Warsaw mermaid at the soldier's feet; right - describing who the monument commemorates, with a representation of soldiers arriving at the shore in a boat, with the ship "Marianne" visible in the background. All inscriptions on the monument are in Polish and English.

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