Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 3 October 1914 | ||
Date of death | 30 October 1942 | (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]
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]
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 3 October 1914 | ||
Date of death | 30 October 1942 | (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]
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]