The Lord Lieutenant was represented at a wreath laying ceremony at the Polish Memorial in Prestwick by the Vice Lord Lieutenant, William Stafford, on Saturday 7th February. The service was organised by the Polish Combatants Association and hosted by the RAFA club where the memorial is located. Over 100 invited guests including the local MP, and members of South Ayrshire Council attended the ceremony as well as representatives of the Armed Forces and the Royal Canadian Air Force.

The origins of the Polish memorial at Prestwick can be traced back to the monument said to be erected by Polish airmen at Monkton in Ayrshire.

Discovered there in a dilapidated and vandalised condition the memorial was moved by Kyle and Carrick District Council in 1986 to its new site in the garden of the RAFA Club in Prestwick which fittingly overlooks the sea.

The memorial was repaired and placed on a new plinth. On the 2nd May 1987 the memorial was unveiled with a commemorative plaque inscribed by the Polish Naval, Air Force and Ex-Combatants' Associations.

On the 45th anniversary of the sinking of the ORP Orkan, (Hurricane) 8th October 1988, another commemorative plaque was fitted in memory of the Polish Navy, Merchant Navy and Coastal Command airmen who died in the Battle of the Atlantic.