Pawel Tobolski

Pawel "Peter" N. Tobolski (21 March 1906 – not before 2 April 1944) was a Polish airman who fought in World War II.^[1]

He was a Pilot Officer in No. 301 Polish Bomber Squadron, an expatriate unit that fought as part of the Royal Air Force against Nazi Germany. His aeroplane was shot down; and he was captured and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III. He was one of 76 men who took part in the "Great Escape" on 25 March 1944; an event memorialised in the 1950 book The Great Escape and in the 1963 film of the same name.

He was soon recaptured, in Stettin. He was one of the 50 escapees murdered by the Gestapo on the orders of Adolf Hitler. He is interred in Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery in his homeland, in a British Commonwealth War Grave, next to others who had escaped with him and who had shared his fate.^[2]

His name is inscribed on the memorial to "The Fifty" near Żagań, Poland.

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