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.
Stanisław Komornicki | |
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| Born | 26 July 1924 Warsaw, Poland |
| Died | 10 April 2010 (aged 85) Smolensk, Russia |
| Rank | Brigadier general |
| Battles / wars | Second World War (Warsaw Uprising, Battle of Kolberg) |
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He was listed on the flight manifest[1] 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 Virtuti Militari
- Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Order of the Cross of Grunwald 3rd Class
- Cross of Valour twice
- Partisan Cross
- Warsaw Uprising Cross
- Cross of the Home Army
- Medal „Zasłużonym na Polu Chwały”
- Medal for Warsaw 1939-1945
- Medal for Oder, Neisse and Baltic
- Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945
- Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
- Award of the Minister of National Defence (1964, for a book on the barricades of Warsaw)
References
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