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Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War (649)

Athlete	Nation(s)	Sport(s)	Era	Notes
Silvano Abbà	ITA	MOP	1936	†24 August 1942. Died heading the famed Savoia Cavalry Squadron in the "Charge of Izbušenskij" on the Russian front, the last recorded cavalry charge in the history of warfare.
József Aczél	HUN	FTB	1924	†13 February 1945. Died following German air raid on the final day of the Siege of Budapest.
Stefan Adamczak	POL	ATH	1924	†September 1939. Fought in the September campaign, he was killed in action near Katowice.
Herbert Adamski	GER	ROW	1936	†11 August 1941. Killed in action at Szolty in the Soviet Union.
Stella Agsteribbe	NED	GYM	1928	†17 September 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Iwao Aizawa	JPN	ATH	1928	Died in World War II. Died from Malaria in New Bilibid Camp.
Andrey Akimov	RUS	FTB	1912	†1916. Killed during World War I.
Gordon Alexander	GBR	FEN	1912	†24 April 1917. Killed in action during World War I.
Abdurahman Ali	PHI	SWI	1932	Killed during World War II.
Arno Almqvist	RUS	MOP/SWI	1912	†5 March 1940. Killed in action in Mikkeli from bombing during the Winter War.
Virgilius Altmann	AUT	CYC	1936	†17 October 1943. Killed in action in World War II in Byelorussia.
Erich Altosaar	EST	BAS	1936	†11 October 1941. Died in Soviet prison camp.
Max Amann	GER	WAP	1928	†24 December 1945. Missing in action.
Artur Amon	EST	BAS	1936	†August 1944. Killed in action in World War II.
Laurie Anderson	GBR	ATH	1912	†9 November 1914. Killed in action while serving with the Cheshire Regiment.
Géo André	FRA	ATH	1908—1928	†4 May 1943. Rugby international for France. Killed in action (shot down).
Nikolaos Andreadakis	GRE	ATH	1906	†1920. Killed during the Turkish-Greek War.
Jan Ankerman	NED	HOK	1928	†27 December 1942. Died in a Japanese internment camp in Burma.
Izuo Anno	JPN	ATH	1932	†18 December 1939. Died during the second Sino-Japanese War.
Isakas Anolikas	LTU	CYC	1924—1928	†1943. Shot at Ninth Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania, during World War II
Shigeo Arai	JPN	SWI	1936	†19 July 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Álvaro de Arana	ESP	SAI	1928	†July 1937. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War.
Kalle Arantola	FIN	MSP	1936	†12 February 1940. Killed in action in Kuhmo during the Winter War.
Hikoroku Arimoto	JPN	GYM	1936	Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known.
Albert Arnheiter	GER	ROW	1912	†26 April 1945. Killed in action in the last days of World War II, somewhere in Italy.
Artola	ESP	FTB	1920	Died in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.
Henry Ashington	GBR	ATH	1912	†31 January 1917. Killed in action, France.
Louis Bach	FRA	FTB	1900	†16 September 1914. Killed in action.
Jochen Balke	GER	SWI	1936	†19 January 1944. Sent to a punishment battallion in 1943 for battle fatique and was reported as missing in action in Veliky Novgorod, Russia.
Ernst Balz	GER	ART	1936	Missed in action during World War II.
Józef Baran-Bilewski	POL	ATH	1928	†15 April 1940. A prisoner in the Soviet camp for Polish officers in Kozielsk, he was murdered in April 1940 in Katyń by the NKVD.
Luigi Barbesino	ITA	FTB	1912	Disappeared during a World War II reconnaissance flight.
József Barna	HUN	FTB	1924	†February 1943. Died in World War II either as a soldier or in a labor camp, details uncertain.
Franz Barsicke	GER	ATH	1936	†1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Fritz Bartholomae	GER	ROW	1912	†12 September 1915. Killed in action during World War I.
Franz Bartl	AUT	HAN	1936	†12 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II.
Helmut Barysz	POL	SWI	1936	Declared missing in January 1945 and dead in 1952
Julije Bauer	SRB YUG	ATH	1936	†15 March 1945. Killed in action in Pančevo.
Addi Baumgarten	GER	BOX	1936	†2 October 1942. Died during the Siege of Leningrad. His friends buried him on the road to Vitebsk.
Artur Bäumle	GER	ATH	1936	†6 January 1942. Missing in action since 6 January 1942 in Stalingrad.
Karl Bechler	GER	ATH	1908	He died from shrapnel bullet in the last days of World War II in the basement apartment of a house in Gdansk.
Martin Beckmann	GER	ATH	1906	Missed in action since 1944 in World War II.
Béla Békessy	HUN	FEN	1912	†6 July 1916. Killed in action during World War I.
Bobby Bell	CAN SUI	Coach/ICH/Referee	1928	Executed in the Abbeville Massacre, 20 May 1940
Heinrich Bender	GER	ROW	1928—1932	In 1943 he was killed-in-action during World War II in the golf of Corinth.
Emil Benecke	GER	WAP	1928—1932	†12 August 1945. Died in prisoner-of-war camp.
Marc Benoît-Lizon	FRA	MSP	1948	†17 September 1950. Killed in action during the First Indochina War.
Isaac Bentham	GBR	SWI/WAP	1912	†15 May 1917. Killed in action during Battle of Arras.
Tjapko van Bergen	NED	ROW	1928	†2 February 1944. Served as a Rottenführer in the German SS and was killed on the Eastern Front in Russia.
Franz Berghammer	AUT	HAN	1936	†30 June 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Michelangelo Bernasconi	ITA	ROW	1928	†21 March 1943. Killed in action in World War II in Tunisia.
Hans Bernhardt	GER	CTR	1928	†29 November 1940. Killed in action during World War II.
Herberts Bērtulsons	LAT	ASK	1936	†February 1942. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. The exact date is unknown, but the order was given on 14 February 1942, so probably soon after.
Alick Bevan	GBR	CYC	1936	†24 January 1945. In January 1945 Bevan, a lieutenant in the Hampshire regiment of the British Army, was involved in an operation to capture the towns of Putt and Walderath in the Heisberg district of Western Germany. He was fatally wounded by a mine, and was buried across the border in the Netherlands at the military cemetery in the town of Brunssum. The Alick Bevan Plate Meeting at the Crystal Palace circuit in London is contested in his honour.
Hasso von Bismarck	GER	BOB	1932	†22 June 1941. Killed in action in World War II in Lithuania.
Kazimierz Bocheński	POL	SWI	1936	†May 1940. Was murdered with all the other prisoners in Starobielsk, one of three camps for Polish officers in Soviet Union. Bocheński died either in Starobielsk or Kharkov – it is not certain.
Renon Boissière	FRA	ATH	1912	†25 September 1915. Killed in action in World War I.
Michele Bonaglia (DNS)	ITA	BOX	1924	† 3 March 1944. Enlisted in the Fascist Army, killed by a group of partisans.
Kārlis Bone	LAT	FTB	1924	†13 November 1941. Died in a Soviet prison camp.
Antonio Bonilla	ESP	SHO	1920	†9 November 1937. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War.
Henri Bonnefoy	FRA	SHO	1908	†9 August 1914. Killed in action during World War II.
Helmut Bonnet	GER	ATH	1936	†27 September 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Hermann von Bönninghausen	GER	ATH	1908—1912	†26 January 1919. Died from wounds from being shot in the face in World War I.
Hermann Bosch	GER	FTB	1912	†16 July 1916. Killed in action in World War I.
Werner Böttcher	GER	ATH	1936	†10 November 1944. Missed in action since that date.
Béchir Bouazzat	FRA TUN	MOP	1936	†12 April 1944. Although a civilian in World War II he was killed by friendly fire.
Jean Bouin	FRA	ATH	1908—1912	†29 September 1914. Killed in action, by friendly fire.
Heinz Brandt	GER	EQU	1936	†21 July 1944. Died during an assassination attempt on Hitler, during a meeting at Hitler's East Prussian headquarters.
Hanns Braun	GER	ATH	1908—1912	†9 October 1918. Died as a fighter pilot near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France in World War I.
Karl Braunsteiner	AUT	FTB	1912	†19 April 1916. Died as a prisoner of war.
Kurt Bretting	GER	SWI	1912	†30 May 1918. Killed in action during World War I.
Thierry de Briey	BEL	EQU	1920	†11 April 1945. Killed in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Józef Broel-Plater	POL	BOB	1928	†1941. Died in Dachau concentration camp during World War II.
Franciszek Brożek	POL	SHO	1924	†1940. Wounded twice in the 1920 Polish-Bolshevik War, during World War II, Brożek was taken prisoner by the Soviets and was shot in the NKVD Building in Kharkiv in the spring of 1940.
Wilhelm Brülle	GER	GYM	1912	†5 August 1917. Killed in action during World War I.
Kęstutis Bulota	LTU	SSK	1928	Died late 1941 or early 1942 in Sosva prison camp.
Roger Bureau	BEL	ICH	1928—1936	†April 1945. Died or was killed in a German prison camp during World War II
Heinrich Burkowitz	GER	ATH	1912	†November 1918. Missing in action in November 1918 somewhere in Belgium.
Wojciech Bursa	POL	SHO	1936	†1940. Killed in the Katyń Massacre.
Edmond Bury	GBR	RAQ	1908	†5 December 1915. With the 11th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, he was killed in action in France during World War I, and is buried in Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery in Fleurbaix.
George Butterfield	GBR	ATH	1908	†24 September 1917. Killed in action, France.
Giuseppe Caimi (DNS)	ITA	FTB	1912	†14 December 1917. For his courage and boldness, he received, by Royal decree, a posthumous gold medal for military valour.
Jaime Camps	ESP	ATH	1920	†3 August 1921. Killed in action during the Rif War with Morocco.
José Oriol Canals	ESP	CCS	1936	†5 August 1937. Killed in action fighting with the Nationalists at the Asturias Front.
Novica Čanović	YUG	ATH	1984	†2 July 1993 Killed in the Yugoslav Civil War
Otello Capitani	ITA	GYM	1908	†20 September 1912. Killed in action in the Italo-Turkish War in 1912 in Misrata, Libya.
Bob Carmody	USA	BOX	1964	†27 October 1967. Viet Cong guerillas ambushed Carmody's squad and killed 5 of 6 men. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star for his valor during the ambush.
Waldo Carver	GBR	ROW	1908	†7 June 1915. With the 1st/2nd East Lancashire Royal Engineers, he was killed in action in Turkey in World War I and is buried in the Lancashire Landing Cemetery.
Giuseppe Castelli	ITA	ATH	1928—1932	†19 December 1942. Killed during World War II in Russia.
Simplicio de Castro	PHI	BOX	1936	Killed during World War II.
Joseph Caullé	FRA	ATH	1912	†1 October 1915. Killed in action during World War I.
Ugo Ceccarelli	ITA	MOP	1936	†1940. Killed the day of Milan liberation from the Nazis, near the headquarters of his club, Canottieri Milano. Some say he was killed by partisans as a known Fascist, others wrote that he was killed as a consequence of a private affair.
Sulo Cederström	FIN	SHO	1936	†26 June 1944. Killed in action on the Karelian Isthmus during the Winter War.
Antoni Cejzik	POL	ATH	1924—1928	†12 September 1939. Killed in action as a soldier in the Modlin Army near Zaborów (Mazowieckie).
Ralph Chalmers	GBR	FEN	1908	†8 May 1915. Killed in action during World War I.
Josef Charous	CZE TCH	EVE	1924—1928	†5 August 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Noel Chavasse	GBR	ATH	1908	†4 August 1917. He is one of only three men to have been awarded a bar to the Victoria Cross. Serving as a captain in the RAMC, he was first awarded the VC in 1916 and a bar, posthumously, in 1917.
Chen Zhenhe	CHN	FTB	1936	†28 January 1941. Killed in action during World War II.
Conrad Cherry	GBR	ROW	1936	†1 February 1943. Killed in action during World War II.
Lewis Clive	GBR	ROW	1932	†2 August 1938. Killed in action, fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
Geoffrey Coles	GBR	SHO	1908	†27 January 1916. Killed in action during World War I.
Don Collinge	CAN	FEN	1936	†7 June 1944. Died in a flying accident, possibly brought on by friendly fire, while serving as a navigator in the early morning hours of 7 June 1944.
Cornelis Compter	NED	WLT	1928	†23 February 1945. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
George Cooke	NZL	ROW	1932	†23 May 1941. Killed in action during World War II.
Manuel Corrales	ESP	SHO	1932	†October 1936. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War.
André Corvington	FRA HAI	FEN	1900	†13 December 1918. Killed in action in World War I near Reims.
Charles Courtin	FRA	ATH	1920	Killed in action in August 1944 during World War II
Percy Courtman	GBR	SWI	1908—1912	†2 June 1917. Part of 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, he was killed in action in World War I. Buried at Neuville-Bourjonval British Cemetery.
Frank Courtney	CAN	ROW	1932	†28 August 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Harry Crank	GBR	DIV	1908	†22 October 1917. Killed in action near Ypres, Belgium.
Rudi Cranz	GER	ASK	1936	†22 June 1941. Killed in action during World War II at the beginning of the Russian Occupation at Rosaniec in Poland.
Jacinto Ciria Cruz	PHI	BAS	1936	Killed during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, 1942-1945.
Ferenc Csík	HUN	SWI	1936	†29 March 1945. A medical doctor, Csík was killed in an air raid while treating a wounded man.
Frank Cuhel	USA	ATH	1928	†22 February 1943. A war journalist, he was being transferred to the North African war zone when his plane, the "Yankee Clipper", crashed. His body was not found until three weeks later.
Allan Currie (DNS)	GBR	CCS	1924	Lost his life through enemy action while working in London.
Cliff Cushman	USA	ATH	1960	†25 September 1966. Air pilot, his plane shot down in the Vietnam War. Technically still listed as MIA.
Czesław Cyraniak	POL	BOX	1936	†23 November 1939. Fought in the Polish Army in the September Campaign and died in the Battle of Bzura during the German invasion of Poland.
Bronisław Czech	POL	ASK/CCS/MSP/NCO/SKJ	1928—1936	†4 June 1944. Resistance fighter in World War II, died of typhus in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Krystyna Dąbrowska	POL	ART	1936	†1 September 1944 Killed in the Warsaw Uprising
Paweł Dadlez	POL	ART	1936	In 1939 he was imprisoned by the Nazis because of his “anti-German attitude” and died in 1940 during railway transport to a POW camp.
Georg Dascher	GER	HAN	1936	†25 November 1944. Killed during World War II.
Charlie Davenport (DNS)	GBR	ATH	1912	† 28 August 1916. Killed in action in France.
Robert Davies	GBR	SHO	1912	†9 September 1916. A member of the 1st/9th Batallion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles), he was killed in action in the Somme in France in World War I.
Olivier, Baron de Brandois	FRA	SAI	1900	†9 June 1916 Death of illnesses contracted whilst serving as a member of the French Army
Louis de Champsavin	FRA	EDV/EQU	1900	†20 December 1916. Killed in action during World War I.
José de Figueroa	ESP	POL	1920	†20 October 1920. Killed in action during the Rif War with Morocco.
René, Baron de Lunden	BEL	BOB	1936	†3 April 1942. Killed in an emergency landing of his bomber in Britain.
Émile De Schepper	BEL	FEN	1920	† 12 May 1940 Died during the defense of Namur
Félix Debax	FRA	FEN	1900	†25 August 1914. Killed in action in World War I.
Alex Decouteau	CAN	ATH	1912	†17 October 1917. Killed in action in the Battle of Passchendale.
Francesco Del Grosso	ITA	CTR	1924	†22 July 1938. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War.
Oszkár Demján	HUN	SWI	1912	†4 September 1914. Killed in action during World War I.
Eugen Deutsch	GER	WLT	1936	†8 February 1945. Killed in action during World War II.
Charles Devendeville	FRA	SWI/WAP	1900	†19 September 1914. Killed in action.
Émilien Devic (DNS)	FRA	FTB	1912	†21 August 1944. French Resistance member, shot during World War II.
Tivadar Dienes-Öhm	HUN	POL	1936	†28 October 1944. Killed in action at Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary.
Karl, Baron von Diepurg	GER	IOC	1909—1914	†25 October 1914. Killed in action during World War I.
Diego Díez	ESP	FEN	1924—1928	†September 1936. Killed during the Massacre of Paracuellos del Jarama.
Herbert Dill	GER	ATH	1936	†19 December 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Jānis Dimza	LAT	ATH	1932—1936	†1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known.
Joe Dines	GBR	FTB	1912	†27 September 1918. He was killed in Pas de Calais as a second lieutenant on the Western front during World War I.
Shuji Doi	JPN	WAP	1932	Died in an army hospital, victim of Sino-Japanese war
Erminio Dones	ITA	ROW	1920	†25 April 1945. Killed in action in Africa, serving as an infantry captain.
Herman Donners	BEL	WAP	1908—1912	†14 May 1915. Killed in action World War I.
Foy Draper	USA	ATH	1936	†4 January 1943. Died in an air crash preparing for the Battle of Kasserine Pass.
Jimmy Duffy	CAN	ATH	1912	†23 April 1915. In September 1913, he joined the Canadian Army and was assigned to the 91st Argyle Regiment. On April 23, 1915, he was fatally wounded near Ypres, Belgium.
Peter Dulley	GBR	ROW	1924	†19 December 1941. Killed in action in the Battle of Hong Kong.
Hugh Durant	GBR	MOP/SHO	1912	†20 January 1916. With the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, he was killed in action in France in World War I and is buried in the Vermelles British Cemetery.
Walter Düsedau (DNS)	GER	BOB	1932	Died as a POW in Soviet special camp Ketschendorf
Emile Duson	NED	HOK	1928	†15 March 1942. Died in a Japanese internment camp.
Zdzisław Dziadulski	POL	EQU	1924	†1940. A prisoner in Starobielsk, he was murdered by Soviets in Kharkov in April or May 1940.
Heywood Edwards	USA	WRE	1928	†31 October 1941. Died aboard the USS Reuben James, the first US navy ship to be sunk in the Atlantic during World War II.
Hans Eller	GER	ROW	1932	†4 April 1943. Killed in action during World War II.
Jack Elliott	GBR	BOX	1924	Killed by a Japanese sniper while working as a war correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation during the 1945 Borneo Campaign.
Eduard Ellmann	EST	FTB	1924	†16 November 1941. Executed in a Soviet prison camp.
Eric Fairbairn	GBR	ROW	1908	†20 June 1915. Killed in action in the Somme in France during World War I.
Linn Farish	USA	RUG	1924	†11 September 1943. Sent into Yugoslavia as a secret agent, he mapped out the region for areas which could be used as landing strips. He then flew in and out of Yugoslavia, rescuing hundreds of fliers who had bailed out of crippled planes in the Balkans. He spent three 90-day periods in Yugoslavia, each time parachuting in, and then surveying the area by plane, crashing in the Balkan Mountains on the third trip. He was given the Distinguished Service Cross and the government’s code of secrecy towards the actions of secret agents was broken, so that his name could be released as a military hero.
René Fenouillière	FRA	FTB	1908	†4 November 1916. Killed in action during World War I.
Rafael Fernández	ESP	POL	1924	†30 March 1940. Executed by the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War.
Robert Feyerick	BEL	FEN	1920—1924	†18 June 1940. Killed in action in World War II.
Ángel Figueroa	PUR	BOX	1952	†20 May 1953. Killed in the "Punchbowl" during the Korean War.
Sergey Filippov	RUS	FTB	1912	†1942. Civilian casualty of the Leningrad Blockade during World War II.
Billy Fiske	USA	BOB	1928—1932	†17 August 1940. First American fighter pilot to be killed in World War II, fighting for Britain, in a crash landing.
Hernando Fitz-James	ESP	POL	1920—1924	†7 November 1936. Killed during the Massacre of Paracuellos del Jarama.
Léon Flameng	FRA	CTR	1896	†2 January 1917. Killed in action during World War I.
Alfred Flatow	GER	ATH/GYM	1896	†28 December 1942. Killed in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Gustav Flatow	GER	ATH/GYM	1896—1900	†29 January 1945. Killed in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Alfred Flaxman	GBR	ATH	1908	†1 July 1916. Killed in an attack on the enemy positions at Gommecourt.
Viktor Flessl	AUT	ROW	1928	†18 December 1943. Killed in action during World War II.
Walter Flinsch	GER	ROW	1928—1932	†3 February 1943. Killed in action during World War II.
Hans Fokker	NED	SAI	1928	†2 July 1943. Internment in Burma.
Victor Fontana	ROU	BIA	1972—1976	†24 December 1989. Killed during the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
Hans Freese	GER	SWI	1936	†8 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II.
Stefan Fryc	POL	FTB	1924	†9 November 1943. Murdered by the SS in the Warsaw Ghetto in a mass execution in 1943.
Jan Gajdoš	CZE TCH	GYM	1928—1936	†19 November 1945. Arrested in 1943 as a prominent leader of the Czech resistance movement and sentenced to death. As the Allied front neared, the Nazis started the prisoners on a “death march.” He survived the march, but his health was so severely damaged that he died shortly after the end of the war.
Mauricio Galvao	GER	HOK	1908	†6 March 1945. Killed in action in World War II. His grave is in the war cemetary in Zagreb, Croatia.
Taha El-Gamal	EGY	SWI/WAP	1948—1952	†1956. Killed during the Suez Crisis.
János Garay	HUN	FEN	1924—1928	†3 May 1945. Killed in Mauthausen concentration camp.
Peter Hunter Gaskell (DNS)	GBR	ROW	1936	† 15 August 1944. Killed in action at Normandie.
Jenő Gáspár	HUN	ATH	1924	was killed in World War II, during the Battle of Budapest
Bert Gayler	GBR	CYC	1912	†23 June 1917. Killed by rifle fire during an ambush in a valley near Kotkai Bozi Khel.
Bernhard von Gaza	GER	ROW	1908	†25 September 1917. Killed in action during World War I in Belgium.
Alexander, Jonkheer van Geen	NED	MOP	1936	†27 February 1942. Artillery officer on the cruiser HNMS De Ruijter and went down with his ship during the Battle of the Java Sea.
Günther Gehmert	GER	ATH	1936	†13 June 1940. Wounded in action and died in the field hospital in Montaigu.
Josef Genschieder	AUT	CTR	1936	†3 April 1943. Killed in action during World War II at the Eastern Front in Russia.
Oszkár Gerde	HUN	FEN	1908—1912	†8 October 1944. Killed in Mauthausen concentration camp.
František Getreuer	CZE TCH	WAP	1928	last residence before deportation: Prague, V address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague I, Dlouhá 18 Transport J, č. 90 (04.12.1941 Prague -> Terezín) Transport Ek, č. 134 (28.09.1944 Terezín -> Auschwitz) Murdered 06. 02. 1945 Dachau
Thomas Gillespie	GBR	ROW	1912	†18 October 1914. A lieutenant with the King's Own Scottish Borderers, he was killed in action in France in World War I and is buried in Le Touret Memorial.
Wolfgang Goedecke	GER	ROW	1928	†15 August 1942. Killed in action 1942 (500 m away from the runway of the airport).
Henry Goldsmith	GBR	ROW	1908	†9 May 1915. Killed in action at Fromelles.
Lajos Gönczy	HUN	ATH	1900—1908	†4 December 1915. Killed in action in area of Galicia and Lodomeria.
Otoniel Gonzaga	PHI	SHO	1936	Killed during World War II.
Jan Górny	POL	BOX	1928	†7 May 1945. Forced to fight for the Wehrmacht, where he was wounded and later treated in American Army Hospital in Orglanders, where he died.
Carl Heinrich Goßler	GER	ROW	1900	†9 September 1914. Killed in action during World War I.
Isidore Goudeket	NED	GYM	1908	†9 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp.
Alfred Graaf (DNS)	GER	BOX	1936	†9 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II.
Gustav Grachegg	AUT	EDR	1928	†13 May 1945. Reported missing in action in the Soviet Union on 13 May 1945.
Mark Graham	CAN	ATH	1992	†4 September 2006. Killed by friendly fire.
Ámon von Gregurich	HUN	FEN	1900	†28 June 1915. Killed in action during World War I.
Félix Grimonprez	FRA	HOK	1928—1936	†26 May 1940. With the 8th Train Squadron of Military Engineers, he was killed in action in World War II.
István Grósz	HUN	ATH	1924	he was shot dead by the soldiers of the Arrow Cross movement
Mārtiņš Grundmanis	LAT	BAS	1936	†1945. Died in prisoner-of-war camp in Rīga.
Josef Gumpold	GER	NCO	1936	†1941. Killed in action during World War II.
Nemesio de Guzman	PHI	ATH	1936	†1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Jur Haak (DNS)	NED	FTB	1908	†30 January 1945. Killed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp (GER).
Ru van der Haar	NED	HOK	1936	†15 May 1943. Died in a Japanese internment camp.
Frederick Habberfield	GBR	CTR	1924	†12 December 1943. Killed by German torpedo attack on his submarine.
Emil Hagelberg	FIN	MOP	1920—1924	†1941. Killed in action during World War II.
David Haig-Thomas	GBR	ROW	1932	†6 June 1944. Killed in action in Normandy on early hours of D Day.
Jaroslav Hainz	BOH	TEN	1912	Died in Russia in World War I, but further details not known.
Saul Hallap	EST	WLT	1924	†18 July 1941. Executed by the Soviets when the front reached Põltsamaa.
Juho Halme	FIN	ATH	1908—1912	†1 February 1918. Killed in action in Finnish Civil War.
Győző Halmos	HUN	GYM	1912	†1945. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
Wyndham Halswelle	GBR	ATH	1906—1908	†31 March 1915. Killed by a sniper's bullet in France.
Helmut Hamann	GER	ATH	1936	†22 June 1941. Killed in action during World War II.
Ahmed Hamdy	EGY	SHO	1952	†14 October 1973. Killed during the Yom Kippur War.
Hannes Hansen	GER	HAN	1936	†28 June 1944. Missing in action since 1944 when he did not return from an enemy flight.
Rudi Harbig	GER	ATH	1936	†5 March 1944. Sent to the Eastern Front, Harbig died in the Ukraine, near Novo Archangelsk.
Walter Hasenfus	USA	CMA	1936	†8 December 1944. Killed in action during World War II, while serving with the 307th Infantry, 77th Division in the South Pacific, most likely in the Philippines.
Josef Hasenöhrl	AUT	ROW	1936	†13 March 1945. Killed in action during World War II.
Franz Haslberger	GER	SKJ	1936	†17 September 1939. Killed in action at the beginning of World War II, somewhere in the Ukraine.
Kurt Hasse	GER	EQU	1936	†9 January 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
George Hawkins	GBR	ATH	1908	†22 September 1917. During World War I he served as a Gunner with the Royal Artillery and was killed in action when a shell exploded in the doorway of a dugout while he was on outpost duty.
Harold Hawkins	GBR	SHO	1908	†16 June 1917. Reported missing between Bullecourt and Croisilles. When last seen he was wounded, lying in a very forward position, which unfortunately had to be abandoned.
Cecil Healy	ANZ AUS	SWI	1906—1912	†29 August 1918. Killed in action in World War I.
Hermann Heibel	GER	SWI	1936	†19 August 1941. Heavily wounded at the Eastern Front and died in a military hospital at Valovo in the Soviet Union.
Albert Heijnneman	NED	ATH	1920	†20 February 1944. Tortured to death in the Scheveningen prison as a member of the Dutch Underground.
Oskar Hekš	CZE TCH	ATH	1932	†8 March 1944. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Ilmari Helle (DNS)	FIN	ATH	1928
Fritz Hendrix	GER	ATH	1932	†30 August 1941. Killed in action on the Eastern Front, near Leningrad.
Max Herrmann	GER	ATH	1912	†29 January 1915. Killed in action in World War I.
Otto Herschmann	AUT	FEN/SWI/ÖOC	1896—1914	†17 June 1942. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp.
Felix Hess	NED	ART	1928	†9 April 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp.
Eduard Hiiop	EST	FSK	1928—1936	†24 August 1941. Executed by Soviets.
Robert Hilliard	IRL	BOX	1924	†22 February 1937. Killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the International Brigades, fighting for the Second Spanish Republic. One of four riflemen in the rearguard covering the Republican retreat after the Battle of Jarama, all were shot and killed, Hilliard dying of his wounds at Castellón de la Plana five days later.
Julius Hirsch	GER	FTB	1912	†8 May 1945. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Tommy Hitchcock	USA	POL	1924	†19 April 1944. At the outbreak of World War II he rejoined the Army Air Corps and served as assistant air attache to the embassy in London. He was killed in an army airplane crash in England.
Jadwiga Hładki	POL	ART	1932	†1944. Killed during the Warsaw Uprising.
Gunnar Höckert	FIN	ATH	1936	†11 February 1940. Fought in the Winter War as a volunteer, and was killed on the Karelian Isthmus the day before his 30th birthday.
Hans Hoffmann	GER	CTR	1936	†27 April 1945. Died between 1940 and 1945.
Christian Holzenberg	GER	CMA	1936	Holzenberg was killed-in-action in 1942 on the Eastern front during World War II in Kurzewo (RUS).
Thomas Homewood	GBR	TOW	1908	†1 February 1945. Killed in a V2 rocket attack on London.
Xaver Hörmann	GER	CMA	1936	†23 February 1943. Killed in action during World War II.
Gösta Horn	SWE	DIV	1928	†10 December 1943. Died in the crash of a military plane off the northern tip of Öland.
Václav Hošek	CZE TCH	ATH	1936	†June 1943. Arrested by the Gestapo and shot while trying to escape.
Robert Huber	GER	ROW	1928—1932	†18 August 1942. Missing in action since 1 July 1942 in Russia.
George Hutson	GBR	ATH	1912	†14 September 1914. Killed in action only five weeks after the outbreak of World War I.
Olli Huttunen	FIN	MSP	1936	†19 February 1940. Killed in action near Impilakhti on the Karelian Isthmus during the Winter War.
Arvīds Immermanis	LAT	CYC	1936	†July 1947. Died in a Soviet prison camp.
Milutin Ivković	SRB YUG	FTB	1928	†25 May 1943. Shot to death in Jajinci Concentration Camp.
Mozes Jacobs	NED	GYM	1928	†9 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp.
Adolf Jäger	GER	FTB	1912	†21 November 1944. Died in a bombing raid.
Kalle Jalkanen	FIN	CCS	1936	†5 September 1941. Killed when he stepped on a mine while on an intelligence gathering mission in Lempaala, Ingeria.
Edmund Jankowski	POL	ROW	1928	†1 November 1939. Arrested by the Gestapo and shot near Fordon (now this is the district of Bydgoszcz).
Akilles Järvinen	FIN	ATH	1928—1936	†7 March 1943. Died when his military aircraft crashed during a test flight.
Kalle Järvinen	FIN	ATH	1928—1932	†25 August 1941. Killed in by a fellow solider in a drunken brawl during the Winter War.
Józef Jaworski	POL	ATH	1924—1928	†1 September 1939. Second lieutenant in the artillery, he was killed in action on the last day of the Battle of Oksywie, near Gdynia, while manning coastal defenses during the German invasion of Poland.
Jerzy Jełowicki	POL	ART	1936	He was killed in action at the Battle of Warszawa in 1939.
Albert Jenicot	FRA	FTB	1908	†22 February 1916. An under-lieutenant with the 165th Regiment D Infantry, he was killed in action in World War I.
Walther Jesinghaus	GER	GYM	1912	†1918. Killed in action during World War I.
Jin Guidi	CHN	BOX	1936	†1937. Killed during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Birger Johansson	FIN	CAN	1936	†3 January 1940. Killed in action at the Battle of Summa.
Ernst, Jonkheer de Jonge	NED	ROW	1936	†3 September 1944. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
Jānis Jordāns	LAT	ATH	1928	†25 February 1944. Died in a Soviet prison camp.
Emil Juracka	AUT	HAN	1936	†21 February 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Enrique Jurado	PHI	WRE	1936	Jurado was sent to Mindoro in October 1944 to try to consolidate the guerrillas there, but was tragically killed by a rival guerrilla faction.
Harald Kaarman	EST	FTB	1924	†19 August 1942. Executed in a Soviet prison camp.
Endre Kabos	HUN	FEN	1932—1936	†4 November 1944. Kabos, a Jew, was arrested by Hungary's home-grown Nazis, the Arrow Cross, and sent to a forced labor camp. With the aid of a compassionate guard, he escaped and joined the Hungarian underground. There are various accounts of his death.
Josef Kahl	CZE TCH	SKJ	1936	†23 February 1942. Killed in action during World War II.
Eddy Kahn	NED	EVE	1936	†19 August 1944. Worked as an officer with the American invasion forces in Normandy when he was killed in action in France.
Kalle Kainuvaara	FIN	DIV/MOP	1912—1920	†21 October 1943. Wounded and later died in a war hospital.
Ahmed Kandil	EGY	SWI	1948	†May 1950. Killed in a military action.
Roman Kantor	POL	FEN	1936	†1943. Killed in Maidanek concentration camp.
Ted Kara	USA	BOX	1936	†14 February 1944. Lost at sea 14 February 1944, but official death date given as 14 February 1946 after he was not found.
Władysław Karaś	POL	SHO	1936	†28 May 1942. A soldier in the Polish Resistance Army (Armia Krajowa), he was arrested by the Germans on 23 April 1932 and was executed in Magdalenka near Warsaw, along with 223 officers.
Martin Karl	GER	ROW	1936	†1 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II near Mikhaylova in the Soviet Union.
Joachim Karsch	GER	ART	1932	†11 February 1945. Committed suicide after Russian occupation of Germany, rather than allowing himself to be deported to a Russian POW camp.
Karl Kaschka	AUT	FEN	1936	†4 December 1941. Killed in action in World War II near Tobruk.
Elias Katz	FIN	ATH	1924	†26 December 1947. Died in Palestine in 1947.
Tatsugo Kawaishi	JPN	SWI	1932	†17 March 1945. Killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Zdzisław Kawecki	POL	EVE	1936	†April 1940. A prisoner in the Soviet camp for Polish officers in Kozielsk, he was murdered in Katyń.
Ernest Keeley	RSA	SHO	1912	†23 July 1918. A 2nd lieutenant with the 4th Regiment, South African Infantry Unit, he was killed in action in World War I and is buried in the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Frederick Kelly	GBR	ROW	1908	†13 November 1916. Killed in action during World War I.
Paul Kenna	GBR	EQU/EVE	1912	†30 August 1915. Killed in action at the Battle of Gallipoli.
Robert Keres	EST	BAS	1936	†26 October 1946. Died from wounds sustained during World War II.
Reinhold Kesküll	EST	ATH	1924	†1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known.
Lauri Kettunen	FIN	FEN/MOP	1928—1936	†15 August 1941. Killed in action near Kiestinki during the Continuation War.
Ferdinand Kiefler	AUT	HAN	1936	†13 January 1945. Killed in action during World War II.
Alfred Kienzle	GER	WAP	1936	†4 September 1940. Killed in action during World War II.
Jaan Kikkas	EST	WLT	1924	†9 March 1944. Killed in Tallinn during a bombing raid by the Soviets.
Desmond Kingsford	GBR	ROW	1936	†10 August 1944. Killed in action in Normandy.
Alister Kirby	GBR	ROW	1912	†29 March 1917. Served as a captain in the Rifle Brigade and died from illness in 1917.
Michael Kirchmann	GER	MSP	1936	†15 November 1942. Killed in action during the Siege of Leningrad.
Frederick Kitching	GBR	ATH	1908	†1914. Killed in action in World War I.
Aaro Kiviperä	FIN	MOP	1936	†11 July 1944. Killed in combat at Vuosalmi.
Kārlis Kļava	LAT	SHO	1936	†1941. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known.
Josef Klein	CZE TCH	ATH	1936	†1941. Member of the Czech resistance. Died shortly after release from prison - possibly from effects of torture.
Józef Klukowski	POL	ART	1932—1936	†29 April 1944. Killed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Arthur Knautz	GER	HAN	1936	†4 May 1943. Reported missing in action on 4 May 1943, west of Byelgorod, URS.
Dmitry Knyazhevich	RUS	FEN	1912	†1918 Killed during the Russian Revolution
František Kobzík	CZE TCH	ROW	1936	†7 May 1944. Committed suicide to avoid capture during World War II.
Erland Koch	GER	SHO	1912	†29 April 1945. Killed in action during the last days of World War II, one day before Adolf Hitler's suicide.
Karl Koch	GER	CYC	1928	†28 June 1944. Died in World War II (between 1939-1945).
Adolf Kofler	AUT	CYC	1912	†13 April 1915. Killed in action during World War I.
Yasuhiko Kojima	JPN	SWI	1936	†12 June 1945. Killed in action at Okinawa.
August Kop	NED	HOK	1928	†30 April 1945. Died while constructing the Pekanburu railroad on Sumatra.
Dora Köring	GER	TEN	1912	†13 February 1945. Died in the infamous bombing of Dresden.
Elmar Korko	EST	ROW	1936	†10 July 1941. Executed by Soviet soldiers when the front reached Tartu.
Kurt Körner	GER	SKJ	1936	He was killed-in-action during World War II, and was declared dead in 1945.
Heinz Körvers	GER	HAN	1936	†29 December 1942. Listed as missing in action near Stalingrad.
Lauri Koskela	FIN	WRE	1932—1936	†3 August 1944. Killed in action at Battle of Äyräpää-Vuosalmi in Continuation War between Finland and Soviet Union.
Karl Kotratschek	AUT	ATH	1936	†4 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II.
Aleksander Kowalski	POL	ICH	1928—1932	†3 April 1940. A prisoner in the Soviet camp for Polish officers in Kozielsk. He was murdered in Katyń.
Marian Kozłowski	POL	CMA	1936	†1943. Died during bombardment, with precise date and place unknown.
Roman Kramsztyk	POL	ART	1928	Kramsztyk was Jewish and was murdered in 1942 in the midst of his pictures by the German SS in the Warsaw ghetto as a demonstration of their strength.
Hans-Helmuth Krause	GER	ATH	1928	†26 February 1944. Killed in action during World War II as a batallion leader.
Paul Krauß	GER	SKJ	1936	†20 February 1942. Killed in action during World War II near Borvik in the Soviet Union.
Georg Krogmann	GER	FTB	1912	Krogmann was killed in action in 1915 in Poland during World War I.
Leonhard Kukk	EST	WLT	1928	†1944. A civilian who was killed by Soviet troops.
Ernst Künz	AUT	FTB	1936	†21 August 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Willi Kürten	GER	ATH	1936	†18 July 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Stanisław Kuryłłowicz	POL	ROW	1936	†2 February 1945. Killed in action in Poznań.
Albert Kusnets	EST	WRE	1924—1928	†1942. Starved to death in a Soviet prison camp.
Janusz Kusociński	POL	ATH	1932	†21 June 1940. Volunteered for the Polish army and was wounded twice. During German occupation he was secretly a member of the Polish resistance. Arrested by the Gestapo on 26 March 1940 during the AB-Aktion, he was imprisoned in Mokotów prison, and was executed three months later in Palmiry, near Warsaw.
Aksel Kuuse	EST	ATH	1936	†27 April 1942. Starved to death in a Soviet prison camp.
Nikolay Kynin	RUS	FTB	1912	†1916. Killed during World War I.
Harvey Lacelle	CAN	BOX	1936	†28 June 1942. Killed during a bombing raid over Berlin.
Hans Lahr	CZE TCH	NCO/SKJ	1936	†24 February 1942. Killed in action during World War II.
Ivan Laing	GBR	HOK	1908	†30 November 1917. With the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, he was killed in action in France during World War I, and is buried in Metz-en-Couture Communal Cemetery, British Extension.
Frits Lamp	NED	ATH	1924	†27 May 1945. Died while constructing the Pekanburu railroad on Sumatra.
John Lander	GBR	ROW	1928	†25 December 1941. Killed in the Battle of Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941, Lander was the only British Olympic gold medallist killed during World War II.
Fritz Landertinger	AUT	CMA	1936	†18 January 1943. Died during the Siege of Leningrad.
Johann Langmayr	AUT	ATH	1936	†1943. Went missing in action in 1943 near Stalingrad.
Octave Lapize	FRA	CTR	1908	†14 July 1917. Killed when his plane was shot down near Verdun.
Martti Lappalainen	FIN	CCS	1928—1932	†6 October 1941. Killed in action in the Continuation War on the banks of Svir River.
Béla Las-Torres	HUN	SWI	1908—1912	†13 October 1915. Killed in action in Italy during World War I.
Karl Leban	AUT	MOP/SSK	1936	†28 July 1941. Killed in action in World War II in the Ukraine.
Henry Leeke	GBR	ATH	1908	†29 May 1915. Killed in action on the eve of his battalion's departure for Gallipoli.
Emmanuel Legaspi	PHI	BOX	1988	†7 May 2006. Killed in action during the Iraq War.
Erich Lehmann	GER	ATH	1912	†9 July 1918. Listed as missing in action in World War I.
Julien Lehouck	BEL	ATH	1920	†25 February 1944. Member of the Belgian resistance, arrested and hung in Concentration Camp Breendonk.
Wilhelm Leichum	GER	ATH	1936	†19 July 1941. Killed near Gorki during fight on the Eastern Front in World War II. Posthumously, he was moved up in rank to Lieutenant to assist his family with his pension.
Albert Leidmann	GER	BOX	1928	†1 February 1945. Missing in action in World War II.
Ludwig Leinberger	GER	FTB	1928	†3 March 1943. Died in a military hospital in 1943 after surgery for appendicitis.
Hermann Lemp	GER	MOP	1936	†9 November 1943. Listed as missing in action near Witebsk, now in Belarus.
Feliks Leparsky	RUS	FEN	1912	†10 January 1917. Killed in action in World War I.
Bertrand, Count de Lesseps	FRA	FEN	1908	†28 August 1918. Killed in action during World War I.
Ismaël de Lesseps	FRA	FEN	1908	†30 September 1915. Killed in action during World War I.
Herbert Leupold	GER	CCS/MSP	1936	†22 December 1942. Died from his war wounds in a military hospital near Navaginskaya in the Soviet Union.
Dave Lindsay	NZL	SWI	1928	†12 December 1943. Killed in the battle for Orsogna in southern Italy. He and seven other members of his platoon were victims of a shell from an Allied 25-pounder that fired short.
Rudolf Lippert	GER	EVE	1928—1936	†1 April 1945. Won multiple honors in World War II including the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 9 June 1944 before his death at Bielefeld.
Emil Lohbeck	GER	BAS	1936	Killed-in-action during World War II 1944 in Berlin.
Eugeniusz Lokajski	POL	ATH	1936	†25 September 1944. Killed in action during the Warsaw Uprising by an artillery barrage. Buried in Powązki Cemetery with other Polish Sportsmen who died in World War II.
Luz Long	GER	ATH	1936	†14 July 1943.
Ivan Lönnberg	SWE	ATH	1912	†26 April 1918. Shot down and killed whilst serving as a pilot in the French forces during World War 1
Leszek Lubicz-Nycz	POL	FEN	1932	†22 September 1939. He was killed in action in Buraków near Warsaw during the September Campaign.
Jerzy Łucki	POL	BOB	1928	†18 April 1939. Killed in action during the September Campaign in Kuty (now on Ukraine).
Paul Lüders	GER	BPO	1908	†26 February 1916. Killed in action in World War I in Spincourt.
Jaakko Luoma	FIN	ATH	1924	†12 March 1940. Killed in action near Uomaalla (Impilahti) on the Karelian Isthmus.
Eduard von Lütcken	GER	EVE	1912	†15 September 1914. Killed in action during World War I.
Georges Lutz	FRA	CTR	1908	†31 January 1915. Killed in action in World War I.
Willy Lützow	GER	SWI	1912	†1915. Killed in action during World War I.
William Lyshon	USA	WRE	1912	†13 October 1918. Killed in the final days of World War I.
Jeffrey MacDougall	GBR	MOP	1932—1936	†December 1942. Killed in action during World War II.
Henry Macintosh	GBR	ATH	1912	†26 July 1918. Died from wounds sustained in the Second Battle of the Somme.
Duncan Mackinnon	GBR	ROW	1908	†9 October 1917. Killed in action at Ypres in the Battle of Passchendaele.
Gilchrist Maclagan	GBR	ROW	1908	†25 April 1915. Killed in action in Pilckem Ridge, at the Second Battle of Ypres.
Gustav Mader	AUT	BOB	1928	†18 April 1945. Killed in action in World II near Rijeka.
Eugène Maës (DNS)	FRA	FTB	1912	†30 March 1945. Killed in Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp (GER).
Hans Maier	GER	ROW	1928—1936	†6 March 1943. Killed in action at the North African Front near Mareth, Tunisia.
Aleksander Małecki	POL	FEN	1928	†September 1939. Fought in the September Campaign, and was probably killed during an attempt to escape to Hungary after 17 September 1939.
Jarl Malmgren	FIN	FTB	1936	†5 June 1942. Killed in action near Pogost, on the Karelian Isthmus.
Hendrik Mangelaar Meertens (DNS)	NED	HOK	1928	†18 September 1944 Died whilst a prisoner on a Japanese transport ship when it was attacked and sunk by a British submarine.
Antonios Mangos	GRE	ATH	1928	Died during the Greco-Italian War.
Clayton Mansfield	USA	MOP	1932	†9 January 1945. Commanding officer of the 92nd Recon group, he was killed in action in the European Theatre of Operations (ETO).
Edward Manteuffel	POL	ART	1932	In 1939 Manteuffel was captured and imprisoned by the Soviets, and was mysteriously murdered by the NKVD in April or May 1940 in Krákow, the exact date of death is not known.
Charles Marion	FRA	EDR	1928—1932	†16 November 1944. Kidnapped and killed by guerillas.
François Marits	NED	SHO	1924	†2 April 1945. Died in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany.
Hans Marr	GER	SKJ	1936	†20 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II, near Minsk, Belarus, with the rank of Unteroffizier.
Nemesio Martínez	ESP	EQU	1924	†1936. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War.
Martti Marttelin	FIN	ATH	1928	†1 March 1940. Killed in action at the Battle of Taipale near what is now the Burnaya River.
Jean de Mas Latrie	FRA	FEN/MOP	1908—1912	†5 September 1914. Killed in action in World War I.
Antoni Maszewski	POL	ATH	1936	†5 August 1944. An officer in the Polish Armed Forces (so-called Anders Army) who fought in the Italian Campaign. Killed in action when the Allies fought at the Battle of Ancona.
Akira Matsunaga	JPN	FTB	1936	†1942. Killed in action at Guadalcanal.
Leopold Mayer	AUT	SWI	1906	†21 September 1914. Killed in action during World War I.
Ludwig Mayer	GER	MSP	1928	He is missed-in-action in World War II since New Year 1945.
D'Arcy McCrea	IRL	TEN	1924	†22 December 1940. Killed during the Great Manchester Blitz when a parachute mine hit his home, while he and his wife were hosting a party, killing them and their children.
Alphonse Meignant	FRA	ROW	1912	†4 November 1914. Killed at First Battle of Ypres during World War 1.
Johan Meimer	EST	ATH	1928	†10 December 1944. A prisoner-of-war, who was killed by Soviet soldiers, while trying to escape as he was being transported to a new prison. As a prisoner of war, he was a member of squad that made restoring works in Pärnumaa.
Visvaldis Melderis	LAT	BAS	1936	†14 July 1944. Killed in action in World War II.
Elias Melkman	NED	GYM	1928	†3 January 1942. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Willi Menne	GER	ROW	1936	†27 March 1945. Killed in action during World War II somewhere in Slovakia.
Toni Merkens	GER	CTR	1936	†20 June 1944. Wounded on 19 August 1943 in World War II fighting the Russians on the Eastern Front, when struck between the heart and lungs by a shell splinter, later dying in a hospital in Wildbad im Schwarzwald.
Robert Merz	AUT	FTB	1912	†30 August 1914. Killed in action during World War I.
Fritz Messner	GER	HOK	1936	†7 November 1945. Killed in action during World War II.
Georg Mickler	GER	ATH	1912	†14 June 1915. Killed in action during World War I somewhere in Poland.
Konrad Miersch	GER	MOP	1932	†2 March 1942. Killed in action at the Eastern Front with the rank of SS Major.
Jovan Mikić	SRB YUG	ATH	1936	†10 November 1944 (or 11 October 1944). Killed during World War II.
Felice Milano (DNS)	ITA	FTB	1912	†11 November 1915. Killed at the Fourth Battle of the Isonzo during World War I.
Lion van Minden	NED	FEN	1908	†6 September 1944. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Josef Miner	GER	BOX	1936	†1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Tsutomu Mitsudome	JPN	ROW	1936	†June 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa as Captain of the 1st Machine Gun Squadron
Aleksander Mitt	EST	SSK	1928—1936	†18 April 1942. Executed in a Soviet prison camp.
Nicolaas Moerloos	BEL	GYM/WLT	1920—1924	†5 September 1944. Killed as a member of the Belgian resistance during an encounter with German forces, shortly before liberation.
Abraham Mok	NED	GYM	1908	†29 February 1944. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Percy Molson	CAN	ATH	1904	†5 July 1917. Killed in action when hit by mortar fire while attempting to rescue a fallen friend on the outskirts of Avignon, France.
Ernst Moltzer	NED	SAI	1936	†15 November 1941. Killed while flying back to England.
Jacob van Moppes	NED	WRE	1908	†26 March 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp.
Alfred Motté	FRA	ATH	1908—1912	†31 October 1918. Killed in action in World War I.
István Mudin	HUN	ATH	1906—1912	†22 July 1918. Killed in action during World War I.
Juan Muguerza	ESP	ATH	1920	†5 May 1937. Died in a bombing accident.
Eugen Mühlberger	GER	WLT	1928	†1 August 1944. Missing in action in Russia.
Michael Murach	GER	BOX	1936	†1 August 1941. Died during the Siege of Leningrad.
Jack Murdoch	CAN	ROW	1928	†10 October 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Camillo Mussi	ITA	ICH	1936	Killed in action in air battle over Egypt
Henrik Nádler (DNS)	HUN	FTB	1924	†May 1944. Died in work camp during World War II.
Saburo Nagao	JPN	ATH	1932—1936	Died in World War II in PNG.
Eiichi Nakamura	JPN	HOK	1932	†27 May 1945. Killed during air raid in World War II.
Edward Nash	GBR	EQU/EVE	1912	†21 February 1915. Killed in action during World War I.
Helmuth Naudé	GER	MOP	1932	†3 February 1943. Killed in action at the Eastern Front with the rank of Oberst.
Bruno Neumann	GER	EVE	1928	Neumann went missing in action in Russia in December 1943 and was declared dead in 1944.
Georges de la Nézière	FRA	ATH	1896	†9 October 1914. Killed in action during World War I.
Grigory Nikitin	RUS	FTB	1912	†1917. Killed during World War I.
Takeichi, Baron Nishi	JPN	EQU/EVE	1932—1936	†22 March 1945. Possibly committed suicide during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Jules Noël	FRA	ATH	1928—1936	†19 May 1940. Refused post as headmaster at Joinville School to enlist in the military and was killed by enemy fire in May 1940.
Józef Noji	POL	ATH	1936	†15 February 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Lea Nordheim	NED	GYM	1928	†2 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp.
Mauri Noroma	FIN	GYM	1928—1936	†23 December 1939. Killed in action on the Karelian Isthmus during the Soviet-Finnish Winter War.
Amador Obordo	PHI	BAS	1936	Killed during World War II.
Masayoshi Ochiai	JPN	ATH	1932	Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known.
Sueo Oe	JPN	ATH	1936	†24 December 1941. Killed in action during World War II.
Simon Okker	NED	FEN	1906—1908	†6 March 1944. Killed in Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp.
Charles Oldaker	GBR	GYM	1908	†26 September 1915 Killed in action during World War I.at the Battle of Loos.
Kurt Oleska	GER	BAS	1936	Missed in action since Januar 9, 1945 in Russia.
Abraham d'Oliveira	NED	GYM	1908	†26 March 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp.
Harcourt Ommundsen	GBR	SHO	1908—1912	†19 September 1915. A Lieutenant in the Honourable Artillery Company when he was killed at the Battle of Ieper in World War I.
Boughera El Ouafi	ALG FRA	ATH	1924—1928	†18 October 1959. Killed by members of the Algerian Liberation Movement.
Heinrich Paal	EST	FTB	1924	†18 December 1941. Executed in a Soviet prison camp.
Charley Paddock	USA	ATH	1920—1928	†21 July 1943. Died in a plane crash near Sitka, Alaska.
Tjeerd Pasma	NED	ATH/MOP	1928	Died when a V1 flying bomb prematurely exploded
Alan Patterson	GBR	ATH	1908—1912	†14 March 1916. Commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery, he was killed in action only two days after his 30th birthday.
František Pecháček	CZE TCH	GYM	1920	†3 February 1944. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
Árpád Pédery	HUN	GYM	1912	†21 October 1914. Killed in action during World War I.
Fritz Pellkofer	GER	CCS	1928	†23 January 1943. During World War II, he was declared missing in action in Russia.
Emil Perška	CRO YUG	FTB	1920—1928	†May 1945. Executed during World War II.
Jacques Person	GER	ATH	1912	†15 July 1915. From Alsace, killed in action in Flanders as a member of the "7. Thüringische Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 96".
Attila Petschauer	HUN	FEN	1928—1932	†20 January 1943. Killed in Dawidowka concentration camp.
Arvo Peussa	FIN	ATH	1924	†19 July 1941. Killed in action near Salmi on the Karelian Isthmus, during the Continuation War.
William Philo	GBR	BOX	1908	†7 July 1916. Killed in World War I during the battle of the Somme in France.
Étienne Piquiral	FRA	RUG	1924	†13 March 1945. Died of illness in a POW camp during World War II.
Ernst Pistulla	GER	BOX	1928	†14 Sep 1944. Missing in action since 14 September 1944 in Russia.
Hermann Plaskuda	GER	FEN	1912	†21 March 1918. Killed in action in World War I. His grave is in the war cemetary in St. Quentin, France.
Werner Plath	GER	SWI	1936	†1945. Was executed by the SS in 1945. No further details known.
Wanda Pleszczyńska	POL	ART	1928	Shot by the Germans in 1943 after having been arrested as member of the Polish resistance movement.
Otto Pohla	EST	WRE	1928	†July 1941. Drowned when German submarines drowned the prison ship on which he was travelling.
Ans Polak	NED	GYM	1928	†23 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp.
Léon Ponscarme	FRA	CTR	1900	†24 November 1916. Killed in action in World War I in Verdun.
Janez Porenta	SLO YUG	GYM	1924—1928	†June 1942. Member of the Yugoslav resistance. Executed by Italian forces.
Chris Porter (DNS)	GBR	FTB	1908	†4 June 1915. Killed in action at Gallipoli serving with the Manchester Regiment.
Marcel Pourchier	FRA	MSP	1928	†1 September 1944. Died in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
Bobby Powell	CAN	TEN	1908	Lieutenant in the 48th Canadian Infantry Battalion during World War I. Killed in action while fighting in France. Date and place unknown.
Kenneth Powell	GBR	ATH/TEN	1908—1912	†18 February 1915. Killed in action while serving as a private in the HAC.
Siegfried Powolny	AUT	HAN	1936	†19 July 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Friedrich Karl, Prince von Preußen	GER	EQU	1912	†6 April 1917. During a flight on 21 March 1917 he was forced to land with a bullet in his engine and a slight wound to his foot. He landed his Albatros aircraft in no-man's land, but while running towards his own lines he was severely wounded in the back by Australian troops. He was taken into Australian war captivity where he died from his injuries on 6 April 1917 at Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray.
Reggie Pridmore	GBR	HOK	1908	†13 March 1918. Served as a major in the Royal Horse & Field Artillery, winning a Military Cross on the Somme before being killed in action in Italy.
John Prosser (DNS)	GBR	FTB	1908	†27 May 1917. Killed in action on the Western Front during the Battle of Arras.
Manuel Puig	CUB	ROW	1948	†20 April 1961. Executed by the Cuban government for his part in helping the US led Bay of Pigs landings.
Siegfried Purner	AUT	HAN	1936	†3 February 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Joseph Racine	FRA	CYC	1912	†28 October 1914. With the 113th Regiment Infantry, he was killed in action in World War I.
Thomas Raddall	GBR	SHO	1908	†9 August 1918. With the 8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, Manitoba Regiment, he was killed in action in France in World War I and is buried in the Manitoba Cemetery in Caix.
Maurice Raoul-Duval	FRA	POL	1900	†5 May 1916. Killed in action during World War I.
Richard Rau	GER	ATH	1912	†17 November 1945. SS-Hauptsturmführer who used the pseudonum of Richard Einsporn in World War I. Died in the Wjasma (URS) POW camp. First was held in an American POW camp, but fled and was arrested by the Soviets, who shot him when he again tried to flee. He was then transported to Wjasma where he died.
Gino Ravenna	ITA	GYM	1908	Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, date unknown.
Stasys Razma	LTU	FTB	1924	†1941. Killed in action during World War II.
Josef Rehm	GER	MSP	1928	He is missed-in-action in World War II since July 1944.
Walter von Reichenau	GER	IOC	1938—1942	†1942. One of the highest ranked German soldiers in World War II, After sustaining a heart attack while jogging through the Russian woods, he died from a plane crash when being transported back to Germany.
Willi Reinfrank	GER	WLT	1928	†1 January 1943. Listed as missing in action at the Battle of Stalingrad.
Toivo Reingoldt	FIN	SWI	1932	†28 September 1941. Killed in action after an air crash in Eastern Karelia.
Olli Remes	FIN	MSP	1936	†31 December 1942. Killed in action near Vanozero on the Karelian Isthmus during the Continuation War.
Peter Reynolds	USA	LAX	1928—1932	Died on a ship transporting prisoners of war from the Philippines to Japan
Josef Rieder	GER	CYC	1912	†13 July 1916. Killed in action during World War I.
Wilhelm Rietschel	GER	ART	1936	†18 December 1941. Killed in action in Ropscha, Russia during World War I.
Frederick Riley	GBR	FTB	1936	†7 December 1942. Killed when his plane was shot down over France.
Josef Ritz	AUT	FEN	1936	†31 July 1943. Killed in action in World War II near Kharkiv.
John Robinson	GBR	HOK	1908	†23 August 1916. Commissioned into the North Staffordshire Regiment, he was soon promoted to captain but died from injuries received in the Mesopotamian campaign.
Paddy Roche	GBR IRL	ATH	1908	†7 June 1917. A lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, he won an MC in World War I and was later killed in action.
Boris Roolaid	EST	SWI	1936	†1943. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known.
Egon Roolaid	EST	SWI	1936	†1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known.
Evžen Rošický	CZE TCH	ATH	1936	†25 June 1942. He and his father Jaroslav Rošický were part of the anti-Nazi resistance group Captain Nemo during World War II. They were arrested on 18 June 1942, and one week later, were both executed in Prague, on 25 June 1942.
Claude Ross	ANZ AUS	ATH	1912	†19 August 1917. Killed in action in France.
Albert Rowland	ANZ NZL	ATH	1908	†23 July 1918. Killed in action during the Second Battle of The Marne.
Marius Royet (DNS)	FRA	FTB	1908	†1915. Killed during World War I.
Piet Ruimers	NED	ATH	1908	†6 April 1945. Executed by German soldiers on the beach of the Isle of Texel.
Alfrēds Ruks	LAT RUS	ATH	1912—1924	†30 November 1941. Executed in a Soviet prison camp.
Heinrich Sack	GER	CAN	1936	†13 September 1941. Buried in a military cemetary in Kyiv.
Richard Sahla	GER	EQU	1928	†1942. Killed in action in World War II.
Takahiro Saito	JPN	SWI	1924	Died in World War II, from pneumonia in Manila (PHI).
Maurice Salomez	FRA	ATH	1900	†7 August 1916. Killed in action in World War I.
Paolo Salvi	ITA	GYM	1912—1920	Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, date unknown.
Heinz Sames	GER	SSK	1936	Went missing in action in Volgograd during World War II.
Ronald Sanderson	GBR	ROW	1908	†17 April 1918. Killed in action near Ypres.
Ludwig Sauerhöfer	GER	WRE	1912	Sauerhöfer was killed in action during World War I (1914-18)
Felix Scheder-Bieschin	GER	SAI	1936	†2 September 1940. Died on a ship which was hit by a torpedo.
Hans Scheele	GER	ATH	1936	†23 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II at the Eastern Front.
Adolf Scheffknecht	AUT	GYM	1936	†11 September 1941. Killed in action in World War II. His grave is on the war cemetery in Petschenga, Russia.
Günther von Scheven	GER	ART	1936	†21 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II.
Heinz Schlauch	GER	SWI	1936	†21 February 1945. Killed in action during World War II.
Helmut Schlöske	GER	ATH	1928	In the last months of World War II Helmut Schlöske was killed in action near Potsdam in October 1944, and was buried on the war cemetery in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Alfred Schmalzer	AUT	HAN	1936	†21 January 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Eugen Schnalek	AUT	CYC	1936	†1944/1945. Killed during World War II, exact date unknown.
Heinrich Schneidereit	GER	TOW/WLT	1906	†30 September 1915. Killed in action as an artillery officer in France during World War I.
Richard Schoemaker	NED	FEN	1908	†3 May 1942. Killed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Hans Schönrath	GER	BOX	1928	†10 February 1945. Drowned when hospital ship "SS General von Steuben" sunk by a Soviet submarine.
Koos Schouwenaar	NED	ROW	1928	†22 June 1941. Killed while flying back to England.
Jakob Schüller	GER	ATH	1928	†22 January 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Franz Schüßler	AUT	ICH	1936	†August 1942 in a Russian prisoner-of-war camp in Yushnevo in the Tver Oblast.
Arthur Tell Schwab	SUI	ATH	1924—1936	†27 February 1945. Died in an air raid bombing.
Ludwig Schweickert	GER	WRE	1936	†11 July 1943. Killed in action defending the town of Orjol from recapture by the Soviet Army.
Karl Schwitalle	GER	WLT	1936	†7 February 1945. Killed in action in World War II.
Jos Seckel	NED	ART	1928—1932	Seckel died with his wife and son during the Bezuidenhout bombardment in World War II.
Werner Seelenbinder	GER	WRE	1936	†24 October 1944. Killed by beheading in Brandenburg Prison after years in concentration camps for leading resistance movements against the Nazis.
Katsumi Shibata	JPN	HOK	1932	Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known.
Erich Siebert	GER	WRE	1936	†1947. Died during captivity post-World War II.
Evald Sikk	EST	WRE	1936	†8 August 1945. Executed in a Soviet prison camp.
Farid Simaika	EGY	DIV	1928	†11 September 1943. Became a US Citizen in March 1942, and fought in the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence officer. His plane exploded and crashed over Indonesia. Some stories tell he was captured and beheaded by the Japanese or headhunters. He was declared legally dead on 19 December 1945.
Harry Simmons	GBR	ATH	1928	†23 March 1944. Career Air Force officer, he was killed in a flying accident in World War II.
André Six	FRA	SWI	1900	†1 April 1915. Killed in action.
Pierre Six	FRA	FTB	1908	†7 July 1916. Killed in action during World War I.
Jonas Slier	NED	GYM	1908	†5 November 1942. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Michel Soalhat	FRA	ATH	1906	†25 September 1915. Killed in action in World War I.
Tadeusz Sokołowski	POL	EQU	1936	†6 February 1943. Murdered by the Gestapo in Minsk (Belarus).
Josip Šolc	CRO YUG	FTB	1920	†24 September 1945. Ustaše member, executed by the Partisans.
Robert Somers-Smith	GBR	ROW	1908	†1 July 1916. Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Eberhard Sorge	GER	GYM	1912	†6 August 1918. Killed in action during World War I.
Werner Spannagel	GER	BOX	1932	†23 December 1943. Sent to the Eastern Front, his death was reported on 23 December 1943.
Sonny Spencer	GBR	ATH	1924	†21 November 1943. Serving as an aircrew sergeant with the Royal Air Force in World War II, he was killed in action on an operational mission.
Leon Sperling	POL	FTB	1924	†December 1941. When the Germans occupied Lwów he landed up in the ghetto, and was shot by a drunk Gestapo officer between 15-20 December 1941.
Marian Spojda	POL	FTB	1924	†16 April 1940. Executed in Lwow.
Alfred Staats	GER	GYM	1912	†22 October 1915. Killed in action during World War I.
Tomasz Stankiewicz	POL	CTR	1924	†21 June 1940. Arrested by the Germans, tortured and shot in a mass execution in Palmiry, near Warsaw as part of Operation AB-Aktion.
Alfred Steinke	GER	ICH/Referee	1928—1936	† May 1945. Killed in action during World War II.
Hugo Strauß	GER	ROW	1936	†1 November 1941. Killed in action during World War II near Goldayeva in the Soviet Union.
Ludwig Stubbendorff	GER	EVE	1936	†17 August 1941. Stubbendorf and his Olympic horse, Nurmi, fought with the First Cavalry Brigade which invaded Poland as an independent unit under Third Army. Both Stubbendorf and Nurmi died during the invasion.
Jean, Marquis de Suarez d'Aulan	FRA	BOB	1924—1936	†8 October 1944. Pilot in World War II, died when his Dewoitine 520 was shot by a Messerschmidt.
Karl Sudrich	AUT	FEN	1936	†18 September 1944. Died in a war hospital in Hungary from injuries sustained in World War II.
Teodors Sukatnieks	LAT	ATH	1924	Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known.
Gustav Sule	EST	ATH	1936	†3 April 1942. Starved to death in a Soviet prison camp.
Bunta Suzuki	JPN	ATH	1936	†10 July 1939. Killed in action during World War II.
Fusashige Suzuki	JPN	ATH	1936	†3 June 1945. Died in the Philippines.
Hildegarde Švarce	LAT	FSK	1936	†4 December 1944. Died in the bombardment of Heilbronn.
Stanisław Świętochowski	POL	ATH	1924	†25 December 1940. Shot in Moscow on 11 November 1940 by the Soviets NKVD. He had earlier been a prisoner in Kozielsk.
Józef Szajba	POL	SAI	1936	†1945. He was murdered by the Nazis in prison in Potulice (near Bydgoszcz) 1945, but further details are not known.
Jenő Szántay	HUN	FEN	1908	†11 December 1914. Killed in action during World War I.
Józef Szawara	POL	ROW	1924	† 5 August 1944 Killed during the Warsaw Uprising in World War II
Géza Szegedy	HUN	ATH	1906—1908	†1918. Killed in action during World War I.
András Székely	HUN	SWI	1932	†January 1943. Killed in concentration camp.
Henryk Szlązak	POL	WRE	1936	†30 September 1944. Killed by an artillery shell during the Warsaw Uprising.
Kazimierz Szosland	POL	EQU/EVE	1924—1928	†20 April 1944. He fought in wars with Ukraine and Soviet Russia, and was killed in the forests of Grodziskiem Mazowiecki.
Ilja Szrajbman	POL	SWI	1936	†1943. Killed in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Georges Tainturier	FRA	FEN	1924—1932	†7 December 1944. Method the Nazis use to execute him was decapitation with an ax.
Teizo Takeuchi	JPN	FTB	1936	†12 April 1946. Died in a detention camp in Siberia.
Harald Tammer	EST	ATH/WLT	1920—1924	†6 June 1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp.
Mutsuo Taniguchi	JPN	ATH	1936	Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known.
Hans Tatzer	AUT	ICH	1928—1936	†23 August 1944. Killed in action during WW II in France
Geoffrey Taylor	CAN	ROW	1908—1912	†24 April 1915. Missing, presumed killed, during the Second Battle of Ypres.
Felix Tekusch (DNS)	AUT	FTB	1912	†21 May 1916. Killed in action during World War I.
Franz Tempel (DNS)	NED	FTB	1920	†25 July 1944. Resistance fighter, executed during World War II.
Otto Thiel	GER	FTB	1912	Died during World War I
Hugh Thomson	CAN	ATH	1936	†1942. Joined the Royal Air Force and was killed in an airplane crash in World War II.
John Thornton	GBR	ATH	1936	†18 August 1944. Commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders, he served at El-Alamein and in the Sicilian Campaign, and was killed in the Normandy invasion.
Waldemar Tietgens	GER	ROW	1900	†28 July 1917. Killed in action during World War I.
Ezedin Tlish	LBA	TKW	2004—2008	†August 2011. Killed during the 2011 Libyan uprising.
Kay Todd, Jr.	USA	AFB	1932	†12 June 1944. Died on Normandie Beach went assaulting a German machine gun nest.
Dragutin Tomašević	SRB	ATH	1912	†1915. Killed in action during World War I in Serbia
Freddie Tomlins	GBR	FSK	1936	†20 June 1943. Killed as a RAF crew-member in fight against a German submarine in/over the British Channel.
Adalbert Toots	EST	WRE	1936	†1948. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known.
Martti Topelius-Tolamo	FIN	ATH	1928—1936	†14 March 1940. Wounded in died five days later in war hospital.
Ernest Toussaint	LUX	BOX	1936	†14 November 1942. Shot in German Concentration camp Hinzert.
Kostas Tsiklitiras	GRE	ATH	1906—1912	†10 February 1913. Volunteered to fight in the Balkan Wars and fought at the Battle of Bizani, where he contracted meningitis and died at the age of 24.
Jack Turnbull	USA	HOK/LAX	1932—1936	†18 October 1944. His bomber was shot down over Belgium.
Masayoshi Uchida	JPN	DIV/SWI	1920	†1945. Killed in action during World War II.
Tokutaro Ukon	JPN	FTB	1936	†1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Martti Uosikkinen	FIN	GYM	1928—1936	†9 March 1940. Wounded at the Battle of Kollaa, part of the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, and died of his wounds in war hospital.
Ala Urban	GER	FTB	1936	†23 May 1943. Killed in action in World War II. Died from his wounds at the field hospital at Aleksino in Russia.
Stanisław Urban	POL	ROW	1928—1932	†April 1940. A prisoner in Kozielsk, he was shot and killed in the Katyń Massacre.
Eugen Uuemaa	EST	ATH	1924	†25 July 1941. Executed by the Soviets in Tallinn before the Germans invaded Estonia.
Aleksey Uversky	RUS	FTB	1912	†1942. Civilian casualty of the Leningrad Blockade during World War II.
Ladislav Vácha	CZE TCH	GYM	1920—1928	†28 June 1943. Killed in action during World War II.
Antal Vágó	HUN	FTB	1912	†1944. Killed 1944 in concentration camp per Volker Kluge.
Hugo Väli	EST	FTB	1924	†1943. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known.
Marcel Van Crombrugge	BEL	ROW	1900	†23 September 1940. Killed in action during World War II.
Martial Van Schelle	BEL	BOB/SWI	1920—1936	†15 March 1943. Executed in transit camp Breendonk.
Johannes van der Vegte	NED	ROW	1920	†15 March 1945. Died in a Japanese internment camp.
Nikolai Vekšin	EST	SAI	1928	†15 January 1951. Died in a Soviet prison camp.
Pierre Versteegh	NED	EDR	1928—1936	†3 May 1942. Killed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Heino Veskila	EST	BAS	1936	†July 1941. Died in June or July 1941 as a prisoner-of-war.
Justin Vialaret	FRA	FTB	1908	†30 September 1916. Killed in action in World War I.
Charles Vigurs	GBR	GYM	1908—1912	†22 February 1917. With the 11th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he was killed in action in France in World War I and is buried in the Maroc British Cemetery in Grenay.
Alex Villaplane	FRA	FTB	1928	†26 December 1944. Executed as a collaborator.
Lorenzo Vitria	ESP	BOX	1924	†18 June 1941. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
Tola Vologe	FRA	HOK	1936	28 May 1944. Executed after being arrested by the Germans under the pretext of an escape attempt.
Fidel Wagner	GER	NCO	1936	†14 February 1945. Missing in action during World War II.
Sadao Wakizaka	JPN	HOK	1936	Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known.
Edmond Wallace	FRA	FEN	1900	†18 August 1915. Killed in action in World War I.
Hans van Walsem	NED	ROW	1936	†2 January 1943. Killed in Neuengamme concentration camp.
Konrad von Wangenheim	GER	EVE	1936	†28 January 1953. Died in a prisoner-of-war camp, possibly murdered.
Tapio Wartiovaara	FIN	SHO	1936	†20 February 1940. Wounded at Battle of Taipale and died the next day in Rauha Military Hospital.
Birger Wasenius	FIN	SSK	1936	†2 January 1940. Killed during the Winter War early in 1940 while fighting for the Finnish army on the islands of Lake Ladoga.
Sigurd Wathne	NOR	FTB	1920	†27 March 1942. 1st engineer on the Risøy, which was attacked by aircraft and sunk near Swansea, Wales. Wathne was found and taken to hospital in Swansea where he died.
Rudolf Watzl	AUT	WRE	1906	†15 August 1915. Died from illness during World War I.
Arthur Wear	USA	TEN	1904	†6 November 1918. As a result of refusing to obtain proper treatment for a probable perforated duodenal ulcer, he died, still commanding his battalion, during the Meuse-Argonne fighting.
Eddie Webster	GBR	ATH	1924	†22 August 1945. Killed in a military vehicle accident in Italy just after cessation of hostilities and one month before he was to be decommissioned.
Erwin Wegner	GER	ATH	1932—1936	†16 February 1945. Killed in action during World War II as a member of the SS near Saargemuend in Germany.
Rémi Weil	FRA	DIV/SWI	1920—1924	†20 November 1943. Died in Auschwitz concentration camp.
Ernst Weiß	GER	ART	1928	†15 June 1940. Committed suicide after the Germans occupied Paris, rather than allowing himself to be deported to a concentration camp.
Árpád Weisz (DNS)	HUN	FTB	1924	†31 October 1944. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
Gerardus van der Wel	NED	ATH	1920	†31 May 1945. Killed in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Walter Werginz	AUT	FTB	1936	†21 March 1944. Killed in action in the Ukraine.
Paul Wevers	GER	CMA	1936	†4 March 1941. Died near Braunschweig in World War II when his plane crashed into the ground.
Miguel White	PHI	ATH	1936	†30 August 1942. Killed in action in the Philippines.
Israel Wijnschenk	NED	GYM	1928	†31 January 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Arthur Wilde	GBR	SHO	1908	†21 January 1916. With the 1st/6th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, he was killed in action in World War I and is buried in the Arras Memorial.
Tony Wilding	ANZ NZL	TEN	1908—1912	†9 May 1915. Joined the British army and was leading an armoured car unit when he was killed at Aubers Ridge during the Battle of Neuve-Chapelle.
Victor Willems	BEL	FEN	1908—1912	†1918. Killed in action during World War I.
Edward Williams	GBR	ROW	1908	†12 August 1915. With the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, he was killed in action in France in World War I and is buried in the St. Venant Communal Cemetery.
Herbert Wilson	GBR	POL	1908	†11 April 1917. Was a captain with the Royal Horse Guards near Arras. Died in the preliminary skirmishes leading up to the Battle of Paschendaele in Ypres, Belgium.
Ernst Winter	GER	GYM	1936	†February 1943. Last sign of life was in Stalingrad in February 1943. It is assumed he died in a Russian POW Camp.
Jack, Lord Wodehouse	GBR IRL	POL	1908—1920	†16 April 1941. Killed in an air raid.
Hans Woellke	GER	ATH	1936	†22 March 1943. Killed in action during World War II.
Heinz Wöllner	GER	ATH	1936	†13 September 1943. Killed in action during World War II at the Western Front.
Paul Wormser	FRA	FEN	1936	†17 August 1944. Executed by Germans in "Le massacre de Sainte-Radegonde".
Matthias Wörndle	GER	CCS	1936	†15 October 1942. Killed in action during World War II near Kansodarsk in the Soviet Union.
Roman Wörndle	GER	ASK	1936	†26 September 1944. Killed in action during World War II near Geilenkirchen in Germany.
Jan Wrzosek	POL	SHO	1936	†3 September 1939. Infantry commander in the Polish Army. Killed in action during the September Campaign in Złoty Potok (Śląskie).
Mikhail Yakovlev	RUS	FTB	1912	†1942. Civilian casualty of the Leningrad Blockade during World War II.
Teófilo Yldefonso	PHI	SWI	1928—1936	†19 June 1942. Killed in concentration camp Capas, following the Bataan Death March.
Richard Yorke	GBR	ATH	1908—1912	†22 December 1914. Killed in action in World War I while serving as a sergeant in the London Scottish.
Kiichi Yoshida	JPN	SWI	1936	Died in World War II in Mindanao (PHI).
Miguel Zabalza	ESP	FEN	1924	†23 September 1925. Killed in action during the Rif War with Morocco.
Janusz Zalewski	POL	SAI	1936	†August 1944. Member of the Polish resistance. Injured during the 1944 Warsaw Rising, he was murdered along with fellow hospital patients and medical staff during Nazi reprisals.
Kazimierz Zebrowski	POL	ICH	1928	There are suspicions, that he was taken out to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he died – details are not known.
Hans Zehetner	AUT	HAN	1936	†29 December 1942. Killed in action during World War II.
Heinrich Ziegler	GER	FEN	1912	Killed in action during World War I
Stanisław Ziffer	POL	ATH	1924	Probably killed in action in September Campaign but the details are not known.
Branko Ziherl	SLO YUG	DIV	1936	†August 1942. Killed in Kočevski Rog.
Ron Zinn	USA	ATH	1960—1964	†6 July 1965. Although assumed deceased, technically still listed as MIA (missing in action) in Vietnam.
Mario Zorzi	ITA	SHO	1932—1936	†17 February 1944. Died at a bombing raid in Frascati near Rome.
Feliks Żuber	POL	ATH	1928	†21 June 1940. Arrested by the Germans, tortured and shot in a mass execution in Palmiry, near Warsaw as part of Operation AB-Aktion.
Béla Zulawszky	HUN	FEN	1908—1912	†24 October 1914. Killed in action during World War I.