DD.11.1918-DD.MM.RRRR 2. bojová eskadra DD.05.1919-DD.MM.RRRR Velitel: III. mobilní letecký park a letecké dílny DD.MM.1919-DD.MM.RRRR Velitel: II. Letecký park 2. leteckého pluku 04.10.1922-DD.MM.RRRR Velitel: Ústřední letecké dílny
DD.11.1918-DD.MM.RRRR 2nd Combat Squadron DD.05.1919-DD.MM.RRRR Commander: 3rd Mobile Air park and Air Workshop DD.MM.1919-DD.MM.RRRR Commander: 2nd Air Park of 2nd Air Regiment 04.10.1922-DD.MM.RRRR Commander: Central Air Workshop
Air Observer K. at K. Luftfahrtruppe Airman of the Polish Air Force
He was born on 7 July 1889 in Nowy Sacz. He studied at Lvov Polytechnic. In 1911 he was called up for military service in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. At the beginning of his military service he taught at the school of one-year volunteers. He then served on the armoured cruiser SMS St. Georg. In 1912, during the Balkan War, he served 6 months on the "Gea". In 1913 he went into the reserve.
After the outbreak of World War I he was called back to the Austro-Hungarian Navy. In December 1914, he served in the naval artillery fortress Pola and from March 1915 in the Marine battalion. In August 1916 he completed an aerial observer course in Sibenik, then served in the Naval Air Force - Marine Seefliegerkorps. He flew reconnaissance flights over the Adriatic Sea, on anti-submarine patrols, searched for ship mines and flew as air escort to ships. He flew mostly Hansa-Brandenburg K and Lohner R aircraft. By the end of the war he had flown about 1000 hours. On 1 January 1918 he was promoted to corvette lieutenant in the reserve (equivalent to the rank of lieutenant).
In October 1918, at the time of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was on leave in Lvov. He joined the newly formed Polish troops at the rank of lieutenant. Here he took part in the fighting for Lvov with the Ukrainians.
He and pilots Stefan Bastyr and Janusz de Beaurain with Lviv students and soldiers occupied the Lewandówka airfield in Lviv on 2 November 1918. He participated in the second air combat action conducted from this airfield on 5 November 1918 with pilot Stefan Bastyr (it was also the second combat flight of the Polish Air Force).
By the end of November he had made 27 combat flights in the observer's position. In addition, he participated in aircraft maintenance. On 27 November, he flew with pilot Stefan Stec to Warsaw with a message for the main state leaders. He then took part in further fighting in the Polish-Ukrainian war.
In May 1919 he took command of the III Air Fleet and the airfield in Lvov. In August 1920, due to the threat to Lvov by the Bolshevik army during the Polish-Soviet War, the III Air Fleet was moved to Kraków, where it merged with the II Air Fleet under Toruń's command. After the Polish-Soviet War, Toruń was promoted to major and remained commander of the II Air Fleet of the 2nd Air Force Regiment in Kraków.
On 4 October 1922 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and became director of Centralne Warsztaty Lotnicze in Warsaw, where the licensed production of the Hanriot H-28 aircraft was being prepared.
He died on the night of Saturday to Sunday, 10 August 1924, at the Ujazdowski Hospital in Warsaw, as a result of severe internal injuries and hemorrhages sustained in an unfortunate accident while repairing the electrical wiring in his apartment.
He was buried on Tuesday 12 August 1924 in the Powązki cemetery. More than 10 years later, on November 24, 1935, his remains were laid to rest in the Defenders of Lvov Cemetery.
He was married. He had a son who was born five days before his death. His brothers-in-law were from Lvov: the journalist Stanislaw Zachariasiewicz and officers Capt. Mieczkowski and Lt. Marek.
In the Austro-Hungarian army he was promoted to the rank of corvette lieutenant in the reserve. In the Polish Air Force he received the rank of lieutenant-colonel-observer.
During the period of the Ukrainian SSR, during the desecration and razing of the cemetery of the defenders of Lviv, Maria Tereszczakówna (a Polish social activist), together with a group of several other people, moved several bodies of prominent Poles (in addition to Władysław Toruń, among others Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski) in order to save the remains of Polish heroes buried in this cemetery, General Wacław Iwaszkiewicz-Rudoszański, Czesław Mączyński, the commander of the defence of Lwów in 1918, and Józef Gerard Szmyd, the Archbishop of Lwów, Polish aviation personalities Stefan Bastyr and Stefan Stec) to other burial sites, which, due to the death of direct witnesses and the earlier disinterest of Polish institutions, remain unknown to this day (except for the so-called "burial sites" of the Polish army, which are still unknown today. The burial site of Bishop Teodorowicz and Father Szmyd).
