Stanisław Komornicki
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{{Infobox military person
|name=Stanisław Komornicki
|image=2007.10.07. Stanisław Komornicki by Kubik.jpg
|rank=Brigadier general
|birth_date={{Birth date|df=yes|1924|7|26}}
|death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|2010|04|10|1924|7|26}}
|birth_place=Warsaw, Poland
|death_place=Smolensk, Russia
|battles=Second World War (Warsaw Uprising, Battle of Kolberg)
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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[http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80269,7752563,Prezydenckim_Tu_154_lecialy_najwazniejsze_osoby_w.html Prezydenckim Tu-154 leciały najważniejsze osoby w państwie (Polish)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100415024851/http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1%2C80269%2C7752563%2CPrezydenckim_Tu_154_lecialy_najwazniejsze_osoby_w.html |date=15 April 2010 }} 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
:Medal „Zasłużonym na Polu Chwały”
: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)
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Category:Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari
Category:Grand Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Grunwald
Category:Recipients of the Armia Krajowa Cross