Bolesław Własnowolski

Bolesław Andrzej Własnowolski, VM, KW, (29 November 1916 – 1 November 1940) was a Polish fighter ace in the Second World War. He fought in the September Campaign and the Battle of Britain. Własnowolski is credited with four individual and one shared victories. in Kraków, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, Władysław Własnowolski, was a railway clerk.

Własnowolski joined the Polish Air Force in October 1936 and started training to be a fighter pilot in October 1937. In June 1939 he was posted to 122 Squadron, which flew PZL P.11c fighter aircraft and was part of the . On 1 February 1941 the Polish government-in-exile posthumously awarded him the Virtuti Militari, 5th Class. On 31 October 1947 he was posthumously awarded the Cross of Valour (Krzyż Walecznych).

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