Antoni Wladyslaw Kiewnarski (26 January 1899 – 31 March 1944) known as “Tony” was a Polish Vickers Wellington bomber “Observer and Captain” flying from England when he was taken prisoner during the Second World War.

He survived a serious crash on the night of 17 – 18 April 1942 when his crew were flying Vickers Wellington (serial number W5566) tasked with bombing Hamburg.

[4] Kiewnarski was in command of Vickers Wellington Mark IV (squadron codes SM-D, serial number “Z1245”) on the night 27 – 28 August 1942 attacking the German target at Kassel.

[5] He ended up in prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III in the province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland).

He was in the first group of “walkers” who followed, they were led by Williy Williams and posed as a band of lumber mill workers on leave and included Australian Rusty Kierath, Canadian Jim Wernham and Pole Kaz Pawluk.

They were shot near Hirschberg (now Jelenia Gora )[11][12][13][14] Kiewnarski was one of the 50 escapers who had been listed by SS-Gruppenfuhrer Arthur Nebe to be killed[15] so was amongst those executed and murdered by the Gestapo.