| Franciszek Sobkowiak | |
| Birth Date: | 3 October 1914 |
| Clubs1: | Warta Poznań |
| Nationalteam1: | Poland |
| Nationalyears1: | 1938 |
| Nationalcaps1: | 1 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
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]