Franciszek Sobkowiak

Franciszek Sobkowiak
Personal information
Date of birth	3 October 1914
Date of death	30 October 1942 (aged 28)
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Warta Poznań
International career
1938	Poland
	*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[edit]

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[edit]

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

External links[edit]

Franciszek Sobkowiak at EU-Football.info
Franciszek Sobkowiak at WorldFootball.net

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[1] "Franciszek Sobkowiak". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 October 2021.

[DS-2] 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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Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	Poland