The ceremony was organised by the Polish Airmen´s Association UK at the Town Hall in Chester. The Polish Air Force during WWII had fourteen squadrons under overall RAF command and its own training and maintenance units. One such maintenance unit was found at RAF Sealand in Wales just across the border from England and Chester. As a token of thanks for great hospitality given by citizens of Chester the Poles had a plaque and presented to the City. The plaque is more an impressive monument situated on the main staircase in the Town Hall. It was unveiled on 27 July 1944.

After the ceremony, the Czech Defence Attaché´s delegation was informed, by Polish friends in the Chester Cathedral, about a memorial plaque and inscription to the Czechoslovak soldiers and airmen fighting in the United Kingdom during WWII. The memorial place mounted on the West wall of the South transept in the Chester Cathedral consists of carved English text to the red sandstone: “To the memory of Czechoslovak soldiers and airmen who fought with the allies and sacrificed their lives during the 1939 – 1945 war”. Next to the carved text there is a copper sheet with the Czechoslovak emblem and under the carved text there is the other copper sheet with English text: “This memorial was given by the Association of the Czechoslovak Legionaries 6, July 1980.” There is a framed English text on paper added to the memorial: “In 1940 after the fall of France the free Czechoslovak Forces retreated to this country and assembled in Cheshire where they were reorganised and equipped to continue fighting with the Allies until the final victory. Many of the Czechoslovak soldiers and airmen have kept vivid and happy memories of their camp at Cholmondeley Castle and of the warm welcome they were given by the people of Cheshire with whom many of them established a life-long friendship. This memorial stone was unveiled on 6 July 1980 by Sir William Barker, formerly Her Majesty´s Ambassador to Prague and was dedicated by the Very Reverend Ingram Cleasby, Dean of Chester, and by the Reverend Dr John Lang of the Society of Jesus.”