It is situated beside the A40/A4180 roundabout junction near RAF Northolt in South Ruislip in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The Polish War Memorial is often used by locals as a landmark when giving directions and in broadcasts of traffic reports, as it is prominently situated by a major road junction on one of the main routes into London. Many other Polish war memorials exist within the United Kingdom; at Audley End, Brookwood Cemetery, Plymouth, the National Memorial Arboretum, Buckden Pike, Bradley and Newark-on-Trent in England; at Wrexham in Wales; and at Douglas, Duns, Invergordon, Perth and Prestwick in Scotland.