Franciszek Sobkowiak
Personal information
Date of birth (1914-10-03)3 October 1914
Date of death 30 October 1942(1942-10-30) (aged 28)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Warta Poznań
International career
1938 Poland 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Franciszek Sobkowiak (3 October 1914 – 30 October 1942) was a Polish footballer,[1] who was killed in World War II.[2] He played in one match for the Poland national football team in 1938.[3] His football club was Warta Poznan.[2]

World War II

Sobkowiak was a Flight Sergeant serving in the Royal Air Force's[2] 138 Squadron on a S.O.E. mission to drop arms and Polish agents to the underground Polish Home Army when he was killed on the night of 29/30 October 1942. When the plane he piloted failed to rendezvous with its reception party he flew home for RAF Tempsford via German-occupied Norway when it was shot down and crashed with loss of all hands. Initially buried 4 miles north west of Ogka, he was reburied in a collective grave at Oslo Western Civil Cemetery in 1953.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Franciszek Sobkowiak". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Zichlarz, Michał (1 September 2019). "Z karabinem w dłoni". Dziennik Sport (in Polish). Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Franciszek Sobkowiak". EU Football. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  4. ↑ "Aircrew remembered, Franczisek Sobkowiak". Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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