Capt. pilot
Bolesław Stachoń (1897–1941) – captain pilot of the Polish Army and officer of the Polish Air Force in Great Britain, associated with the 2nd Aviation Regiment in Kraków. In 1915 he was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army, where he served in the 17th Home Defence Infantry Regiment. After Poland regained independence he fought in the Polish-Bolshevik War as an infantry officer. In 1921 he transferred to aviation, completing training in Bydgoszcz and Grudziądz. He then served in various aviation units of the Polish Army, including briefly in the 2nd Aviation Regiment in Kraków. After 1939 he made his way through Romania to France and then to Great Britain, where he joined the RAF (service number 76608). Initially he held training and staff positions, later volunteering for line service. He was assigned to No. 301 Bomber Squadron RAF, where he flew as second pilot on Vickers Wellington aircraft. He was killed on 4 July 1941 during a raid on Bremen, when his aircraft was shot down over the Absen area in the Netherlands. Part of the crew survived and was taken prisoner by the Germans. His remains were interred in 1962 at the war cemetery in Breda, Netherlands.
