Stanisław Komornicki

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Birth Date:
26.07.1924
Death date:
10.04.2010
Length of life:
85
Days since birth:
36406
Years since birth:
99
Days since death:
5103
Years since death:
13
Extra names:
Stanisław Komornicki, Nałęcz
Categories:
General, Historian, Nobleman, landlord, Victim of Catastrophe, WWII participant
Nationality:
 pole
Cemetery:
Warszawa, Powązki Military Cemetery

Stanisław Komornicki (26 July 1924 – 10 April 2010) was a Brigadier General in the Polish Army and the Chancellor of the Order Virtuti Militari. He was born in Warsaw. He was a Polish underground activist (pseudonym: Nałęcz), a member of underground Scouting (Szare Szeregi), a Soldier of Armia Krajowa, a participant in the Warsaw Uprising, an Officer of the Polish First Army, a participant in the Battle of Kolberg, a writer, and a military historian.

He was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.

Honours and awards

  • Silver Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2005)
  • Cross of Grunwald, Third Class
  • Partisan Cross
  • Armia Krajowa Cross
  • Silver Medal for merit in the Field of Glory
  • Medal for participation in a defensive war in 1939
  • Warsaw Medal 1939–1945
  • Medal for Odra, Nysa, Baltic Sea
  • Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945
  • Award of the Minister of National Defence (1964, for a book on the barricades of Warsaw)

 

Source: wikipedia.org

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        10.04.2010 | The 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash

        The 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash occurred on 10 April 2010 when a Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the city of Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board

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