Roger Bureau

Roger Bureau combined his ice hockey career with speed skating and finished 7th out of 11 starters at the European all-round Championships in 1926 at the age of just sixteen. A few weeks earlier he had made his debut for the Belgian national ice hockey team in 5-0 victory over Spain at the European Championships in Chamonix. Bureau had a 14 year international career as a defenseman which only ended with the outbreak of war. While serving with the Allied forces he was arrested near the French-Spanish border on April 21, 1944. He was then held in a German prison camp until April 1945 when he was killed although the exact details of his death remain unknown.