Richard Marian Ogorkiewicz (2 May 1926 – 24 November 2019) was a Polish British engineer and armoured fighting vehicle historian.
[1] Following the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 his family fled first to Romania, then to France in February 1940.
From 1972 to 2006, he was an independent member of various committees of the British Defence Scientific Advisory Council.
In 1979 he became a lecturer, and from 1988 a visiting professor at the Royal Military College of Science in Shrivenham.
[citation needed] Richard Ogorkiewicz has published numerous articles in journals, most notably in Jane's International Defence Review.