Stanisław Komornicki

Stanisław Komornicki
Born	(1924-07-26)26 July 1924 Warsaw, Poland
Died	10 April 2010(2010-04-10) (aged 85) Smolensk, Russia
Rank	Brigadier general
Battles / wars	Second World War (Warsaw Uprising, Battle of Kolberg)
Awards

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 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)