Athlete |
Nation(s) |
Sport(s) |
Role(s) |
Era |
Notes |
Silvano Abbà
|
ITA |
MPN |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
1924 |
†13 February 1945. Died following German air raid on the final day of the Siege of Budapest. |
Stefan Adamczak
|
POL |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
†September 1939. Fought in the September campaign, he was killed in action near Katowice. |
Herbert Adamski
|
GER |
ROW |
Olympics |
1936 |
†11 August 1941. Killed in action at Szolty in the Soviet Union. |
Stella Agsteribbe
|
NED |
GAR |
Olympics |
1928 |
†17 September 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Sheikh Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
|
KUW |
|
Administrator |
1974—1990 |
†2 August 1990. Shot and killed during the Battle of Dasman Palace |
Iwao Aizawa
|
JPN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1928 |
Died in World War II. Died from Malaria in New Bilibid Camp. |
Andrey Akimov
|
RUS |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†1916. Killed during World War I. |
Gordon Alexander
|
GBR |
FEN |
Olympics |
1912 |
†24 April 1917. Killed in action in World War I. |
Abdurahman Ali
|
PHI |
SWM |
Olympics |
1932 |
Killed in World War II. |
Arno Almqvist
|
RUS |
MPN/SWM |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1912 |
†5 March 1940. Killed in action in Mikkeli from bombing during the Winter War. |
Virgilius Altmann
|
AUT |
CRD |
Olympics |
1936 |
†17 October 1943. Killed in action in World War II in Byelorussia. |
Erich Altosaar
|
EST |
BKB |
Olympics / Other |
1936 |
†11 October 1941. Died in Soviet prison camp. |
Giulio Alvisi
|
ITA |
ATH |
Non-starter |
1912 |
†27 October 1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
Max Amann
|
GER |
WPO |
Olympics |
1928 |
†24 December 1945. Missing in action. |
Artur Amon
|
EST |
BKB |
Olympics |
1936 |
†August 1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Laurie Anderson
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
1912 |
†9 November 1914. Killed in action while serving with the Cheshire Regiment. |
Géo André
|
FRA |
ATH |
Olympics / Non-starter / Other |
1908—1928 |
†4 May 1943. Rugby international for France. Killed in action (shot down). |
Nikolaos Andreadakis
|
GRE |
ATH |
1906 |
1906 |
†1920. Killed during the Turkish-Greek War. |
Jan Ankerman
|
NED |
HOC |
Olympics |
1928 |
†27 December 1942. Died in a Japanese internment camp in Burma. |
Izuo Anno
|
JPN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1932 |
†18 December 1939. Died during the second Sino-Japanese War. |
Isakas Anolikas
|
LTU |
CRD |
Olympics |
1924—1928 |
†1943. Shot at Ninth Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania, during World War II |
Shigeo Arai
|
JPN |
SWM |
Olympics |
1936 |
†19 July 1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Álvaro de Arana
|
ESP |
SAL |
Olympics |
1928 |
†July 1937. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. |
Kalle Arantola
|
FIN |
MSP |
Non-Medal |
1936 |
†12 February 1940. Killed in action in the Winter War in Kuhmo. |
Hikoroku Arimoto
|
JPN |
GAR |
Olympics |
1936 |
Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Albert Arnheiter
|
GER |
ROW |
Olympics |
1912 |
†26 April 1945. Killed in action in the last days of World War II, somewhere in Italy. |
Artola
|
ESP |
FBL |
Olympics |
1920 |
Died in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. |
Henry Ashington
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
1912 |
†31 January 1917. Killed in action, France. |
Louis Bach
|
FRA |
FBL |
Olympics |
1900 |
†16 September 1914. Killed in action. |
Jochen Balke
|
GER |
SWM |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
Missing in action in World War II. |
Józef Baran-Bilewski
|
POL |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
Disappeared during a World War II reconnaissance flight. |
József Barna
|
HUN |
FBL |
Olympics |
1924 |
†February 1943. Died in World War II either as a soldier or in a labor camp, details uncertain. |
Adrien Barrier
|
FRA |
WRE |
Olympics |
1912 |
†29 July 1915. Killed during the Battle of Le Linge. |
Franz Barsicke
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Fritz Bartholomae
|
GER |
ROW |
Olympics |
1912 |
†12 September 1915. Killed in action during World War I. |
Franz Bartl
|
AUT |
HBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†12 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II. |
László Bartók
|
HUN |
ROW |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1924—1928 |
He died in the Holocaust in Buchenwald on 8 April 1945. The camp was liberated the next day. |
Helmut Barysz
|
POL |
SWM |
Olympics |
1936 |
Declared missing in January 1945 and dead in 1952 |
Julije Bauer
|
SRB
YUG |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†15 March 1945. Killed in action in Pančevo. |
Addi Baumgarten
|
GER |
BOX |
Olympics |
1936 |
†2 October 1942. Died during the Siege of Leningrad. His friends buried him on the road to Vitebsk. |
Artur Bäumle
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†6 January 1942. Missing in action since 6 January 1942 in Stalingrad. |
Karl Bechler
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908 |
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 |
1906 |
Missing in action since 1944 in World War II. |
Béla Békessy
|
HUN |
FEN |
Olympics |
1912 |
†6 July 1916. Killed in action in World War I. |
Ezedin Belgasem
|
LBA |
TKW |
Olympics / Non-starter / Other |
2004—2008 |
†August 2011. Killed during the 2011 Libyan uprising. |
Bobby Bell
|
CAN
SUI |
IHO |
Coach / Referee |
1928 |
Executed in the Abbeville Massacre, 20 May 1940 |
Heinrich Bender
|
GER |
ROW |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1928—1932 |
Killed in action during World War II in the Gulf of Corinth. |
Emil Benecke
|
GER |
WPO |
Olympics |
1928—1932 |
†12 August 1945. Died in prisoner-of-war camp. |
Marc Benoît-Lizon
|
FRA |
MSP |
Non-Medal |
1948 |
†17 September 1950. Killed in action during the First Indochina War. |
Isaac Bentham
|
GBR |
SWM/WPO |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1912 |
†15 May 1917. Killed in action during Battle of Arras. |
Tjapko van Bergen
|
NED |
ROW |
Olympics |
1928 |
†2 February 1944. Served as a Rottenführer in the German SS and was killed on the Eastern Front in Russia. |
Franz Berghammer
|
AUT |
HBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†30 June 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Michelangelo Bernasconi
|
ITA |
ROW |
Olympics |
1928 |
†21 March 1943. Killed in action in World War II in Tunisia. |
Hans Bernhardt
|
GER |
CTR |
Olympics |
1928 |
†29 November 1940. Killed in action in World War II. |
Herberts Bērtulsons
|
LAT |
ALP |
Olympics |
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 |
CRD |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1932 |
†22 June 1941. Killed in action in World War II in Lithuania. |
Kazimierz Bocheński
|
POL |
SWM |
Olympics |
1936 |
†May 1940. 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 |
Olympics |
1912 |
†25 September 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Michele Bonaglia
|
ITA |
BOX |
Non-starter |
1924 |
† 3 March 1944. Enlisted in the Fascist Army, killed by a group of partisans. |
Kārlis Bone
|
LAT |
FBL |
Olympics |
1924 |
†13 November 1941. Died in a Soviet prison camp. |
Antonio Bonilla
|
ESP |
SHO |
Olympics |
1920 |
†9 November 1937. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. |
Henri Bonnefoy
|
FRA |
SHO |
Olympics |
1908 |
†9 August 1914. Killed in action during World War II. |
Helmut Bonnet
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†27 September 1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Hermann von Bönninghausen
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†26 January 1919. Died from wounds from being shot in the face in World War I. |
Hermann Bosch
|
GER |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†16 July 1916. Killed in action in World War I. |
Werner Böttcher
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†10 November 1944. Missing in action since that date. |
Béchir Bouazzat
|
FRA
TUN |
MPN |
Olympics |
1936 |
†12 April 1944. Although a civilian in World War II he was killed by friendly fire. |
Jean Bouin
|
FRA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†29 September 1914. Killed in action, by friendly fire. |
Heinz Brandt
|
GER |
EJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
†21 July 1944. Died during an assassination attempt on Hitler, during a meeting at Hitler's East Prussian headquarters. |
Hanns Braun
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†9 October 1918. Died as a fighter pilot in World War I. |
Karl Braunsteiner
|
AUT |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†19 April 1916. Died as a prisoner of war. |
Kurt Bretting
|
GER |
SWM |
Olympics |
1912 |
†30 May 1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
Thierry de Briey
|
BEL |
EJP |
Olympics |
1920 |
†11 April 1945. Killed in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. |
Józef Broel-Plater
|
POL |
BOB |
Olympics |
1928 |
†1941. Died in Dachau concentration camp during World War II. |
Franciszek Brożek
|
POL |
SHO |
Olympics |
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 |
GAR |
Olympics |
1912 |
†5 August 1917. Killed in action during World War I. |
Kęstutis Bulota
|
LTU |
SSK |
Olympics |
1928 |
Died late 1941 or early 1942 in Sosva prison camp. |
Roger Bureau
|
BEL |
IHO |
Olympics |
1928—1936 |
†April 1945. Died or was killed in a German prison camp during World War II |
Heinrich Burkowitz
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1912 |
†31 May 1915. Died in a hospital during World War I. |
Wojciech Bursa
|
POL |
SHO |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1940. Killed in the Katyń Massacre. |
Edmond Bury
|
GBR |
RAQ |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1908 |
†24 September 1917. Killed in action, France. |
Giuseppe Caimi
|
ITA |
FBL |
Non-starter |
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 |
Olympics |
1920 |
†3 August 1921. Killed in action during the Rif War with Morocco. |
José Oriol Canals
|
ESP |
CCS |
Olympics |
1936 |
†5 August 1937. Killed in action fighting with the Nationalists at the Asturias Front. |
Novica Čanović
|
YUG |
ATH |
Olympics |
1984 |
†2 July 1993 Killed in the Yugoslav Civil War |
Otello Capitani
|
ITA |
GAR |
Olympics |
1908 |
†20 September 1912. Killed in action in the Italo-Turkish War in 1912 in Misrata, Libya. |
Bob Carmody
|
USA |
BOX |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1908 |
†7 June 1915. With the 1st/2nd East Lancashire Royal Engineers, he was killed in action in World War I in Turkey and is buried in the Lancashire Landing Cemetery. |
Giuseppe Castelli
|
ITA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1928—1932 |
†19 December 1942. Killed in action during World War II in Russia. |
Simplicio de Castro
|
PHI |
BOX |
Olympics |
1936 |
Killed in World War II. |
Joseph Caullé
|
FRA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1912 |
†1 October 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Ugo Ceccarelli
|
ITA |
MPN |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1940. |
Sulo Cederström
|
FIN |
SHO |
Olympics |
1936 |
†26 June 1944. Killed in action on the Karelian Isthmus during the Winter War. |
Antoni Cejzik
|
POL |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924—1928 |
†12 September 1939. Killed in action as a soldier in the Modlin Army near Zaborów (Mazowieckie). |
Ralph Chalmers
|
GBR |
FEN |
Olympics |
1908 |
†8 May 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Josef Charous
|
CZE
TCH |
EVE |
Olympics |
1924—1928 |
†5 August 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Noel Chavasse
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†28 January 1941. Killed in action in World War II. |
Conrad Cherry
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1 February 1943. Killed in action in World War II. |
Aldo Cigheri
|
ITA |
SWM |
Non-starter |
1912 |
†19 May 1917. Died during World War I. |
Lewis Clive
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
1932 |
†2 August 1938. Killed in action, fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. |
Geoffrey Coles
|
GBR |
SHO |
Olympics |
1908 |
†27 January 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Don Collinge
|
CAN |
FEN |
Olympics |
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 |
WLF |
Olympics |
1928 |
†23 February 1945. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
George Cooke
|
NZL |
ROW |
Olympics |
1932 |
†23 May 1941. Killed in action in World War II. |
Manuel Corrales
|
ESP |
SHO |
Olympics |
1932 |
†October 1936. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. |
André Corvington
|
FRA
HAI |
FEN |
Olympics |
1900 |
†13 December 1918. Killed in action in World War I near Reims. |
Percy Courtman
|
GBR |
SWM |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1932 |
†28 August 1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Harry Crank
|
GBR |
DIV |
Olympics |
1908 |
†22 October 1917. Killed in action in World War I near Ypres, Belgium. |
Rudi Cranz
|
GER |
ALP |
Olympics |
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 |
BKB |
Olympics |
1936 |
Killed during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, 1942-1945. |
Ferenc Csík
|
HUN |
SWM |
Olympics |
1936 |
†29 March 1945. A medical doctor, Csík was killed in an air raid while treating a wounded man. |
Frank Cuhel
|
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
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. |
George Cullen
|
GBR |
GAR |
Olympics |
1908 |
†26 March 1918 |
Allan Currie
|
GBR |
CCS |
Non-starter |
1924 |
Lost his life through enemy action while working in London. |
Cliff Cushman
|
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1960 |
†25 September 1966. Air pilot, his plane shot down in the Vietnam War. Technically still listed as MIA. |
Czesław Cyraniak
|
POL |
BOX |
Olympics |
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 |
ALP/CCS/MSP/NCB/SJP |
Olympics / Non-Medal / Other |
1928—1936 |
†4 June 1944. Resistance fighter in World War II, died of typhus in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Krystyna Dąbrowska
|
POL |
ART |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1 September 1944 Killed in the Warsaw Uprising |
Paweł Dadlez
|
POL |
ART |
Olympics |
1936 |
Imprisoned by the Nazis because of his “anti-German attitude” in 1939 and died in 1940 while returning to Krakow just after his release from the POW camp. |
Georg Dascher
|
GER |
HBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†25 November 1944. Killed during World War II. |
Charlie Davenport
|
GBR |
ATH |
Non-starter |
1912 |
† 28 August 1916. Killed in action in France. |
Robert Davies
|
GBR |
SHO |
Olympics |
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 |
SAL |
Olympics |
1900 |
†9 June 1916 Death of illnesses contracted whilst serving as a member of the French Army |
Louis de Champsavin
|
FRA |
EDR/EJP |
Olympics |
1900 |
†20 December 1916. Killed in action in World War I. |
René, Baron de Lunden
|
BEL |
BOB |
Olympics |
1936 |
†3 April 1942. Killed in an emergency landing of his bomber in Britain. |
Émile De Schepper
|
BEL |
FEN |
Olympics |
1920 |
†12 May 1940 Died during the defense of Namur |
Félix Debax
|
FRA |
FEN |
Olympics / Referee |
1900 |
†25 August 1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
Alex Decouteau
|
CAN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1912 |
†17 October 1917. Killed in action in the Battle of Passchendale. |
Francesco Del Grosso
|
ITA |
CTR |
Olympics |
1924 |
†22 July 1938. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. |
Oszkár Demján
|
HUN |
SWM |
Olympics |
1912 |
†4 September 1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
Eugen Deutsch
|
GER |
WLF |
Olympics |
1936 |
†8 February 1945. Killed in action in World War II. |
Charles Devendeville
|
FRA |
SWM/WPO |
Olympics |
1900 |
†19 September 1914. Killed in action. |
Émilien Devic
|
FRA |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1912 |
†21 August 1944. French Resistance member, shot during World War II. |
Tivadar Dienes-Öhm
|
HUN |
POL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†28 October 1944. Killed in action at Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary. |
Karl, Baron von Diepurg
|
GER |
|
Administrator |
1909—1914 |
†25 October 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Diego Díez
|
ESP |
FEN |
Olympics |
1924—1928 |
†September 1936. Killed during the Massacre of Paracuellos del Jarama. |
Jānis Dimza
|
LAT |
ATH |
Olympics / Other |
1932—1936 |
†1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Joe Dines
|
GBR |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†27 September 1918. He was killed in Pas de Calais as a second lieutenant on the Western front in World War I. |
Shuji Doi
|
JPN |
WPO |
Olympics |
1932 |
Died in an army hospital, victim of Sino-Japanese war |
Alberto Dominutti
|
ITA |
ATH |
Non-starter |
1928 |
Died in a German internment camp in Steinberg. |
Herman Donners
|
BEL |
WPO |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†14 May 1915. Killed in action World War I. |
Foy Draper
|
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†4 January 1943. Died in an air crash preparing for the Battle of Kasserine Pass. |
Jimmy Duffy
|
CAN |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1924 |
†19 December 1941. Killed in action in the Battle of Hong Kong. |
Hugh Durant
|
GBR |
MPN/SHO |
Olympics |
1912 |
†20 January 1916. With the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, he was killed in action in World War I in France and is buried in the Vermelles British Cemetery. |
Walter Düsedau
|
GER |
BOB |
Non-starter |
1932 |
Died as a POW in an internment camp. |
Emile Duson
|
NED |
HOC |
Olympics |
1928 |
†15 March 1942. Died in a Japanese internment camp. |
Hubert Dutech
|
FRA |
EJP |
Olympics |
1900 |
†17 July 1917. Killed in action in World War I |
Zdzisław Dziadulski
|
POL |
EJP |
Olympics |
1924 |
†1940. A prisoner in Starobielsk, he was murdered by Soviets in Kharkov in April or May 1940. |
Heywood Edwards
|
USA |
WRE |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1932 |
†4 April 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Jack Elliott
|
GBR |
BOX |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
1924 |
†16 November 1941. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Eric Fairbairn
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
1908 |
†20 June 1915. Killed in action at the Somme in France in World War I. |
Linn Farish
|
USA |
RGB |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
1908 |
†4 November 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Rafael Fernández
|
ESP |
POL |
Olympics |
1924 |
†30 March 1940. Executed by the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War. |
Robert Feyerick
|
BEL |
FEN |
Olympics / Referee |
1920—1936 |
†18 June 1940. Killed in action in World War II. |
Ángel Figueroa
|
PUR |
BOX |
Olympics |
1952 |
†20 May 1953. Killed in the "Punchbowl" during the Korean War. |
José de Figueroa
|
ESP |
POL |
Olympics |
1920 |
†20 October 1920. Killed in action during the Rif War with Morocco. |
Sergey Filippov
|
RUS |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†1942. Civilian casualty of the Leningrad Blockade in World War II. |
Billy Fiske
|
USA |
BOB |
Olympics / Other |
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 |
Olympics |
1920—1924 |
†7 November 1936. Killed during the Massacre of Paracuellos del Jarama. |
Léon Flameng
|
FRA |
CRD/CTR |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1896 |
†2 January 1917. Killed in action during World War I. |
Alfred Flatow
|
GER |
ATH/GAR |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1896 |
†28 December 1942. Killed in Theresienstadt concentration camp. |
Gustav Flatow
|
GER |
ATH/GAR |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1896—1900 |
†29 January 1945. Killed in Theresienstadt concentration camp. |
Alfred Flaxman
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908 |
†1 July 1916. Killed in an attack on the enemy positions at Gommecourt. |
Robert Fleig
|
FRA |
ROW |
Olympics |
1920 |
During the charge of the 2nd Armored Division to liberate Strasbourg, he guides the column of Lieutenant-Colonel Rouvillois of the 12th RC and allows him to surprise the German defenses and enter the city. Constantly at the head of the column, he died in combat on November 23, 1944 (aged 51) a few meters from the Kehl bridge and the German border. |
Fritz Fleischer
|
AUT |
ATH |
Olympics |
1912 |
†27 February 1943, Theresienstadt concentration camp |
Viktor Flessl
|
AUT |
ROW |
Olympics |
1928 |
†18 December 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Walter Flinsch
|
GER |
ROW |
Olympics |
1928—1932 |
†3 February 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Hans Fokker
|
NED |
SAL |
Olympics |
1928 |
†2 July 1943. Internment in Burma. |
Victor Fontana
|
ROU |
BTH |
Olympics |
1972—1976 |
†24 December 1989. Killed during the Romanian Revolution of 1989. |
Miroslav Forte
|
SLO
YUG |
GAR |
Olympics |
1936 |
† 1942 |
Hans Freese
|
GER |
SWM |
Olympics |
1936 |
†8 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II. |
Stefan Fryc
|
POL |
FBL |
Olympics |
1924 |
†9 November 1943. Murdered by the SS in the Warsaw Ghetto in a mass execution in 1943. |
Metod Gaberšček
|
SLO
YUG |
CMA |
Olympics |
1936 |
† 1942 |
Jan Gajdoš
|
CZE
TCH |
GAR |
Olympics |
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 |
HOC |
Olympics |
1908 |
†6 March 1945. Killed in action in World War II. His grave is in the war cemetery in Zagreb, Croatia. |
Taha El-Gamal
|
EGY |
SWM/WPO |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1948—1952 |
†1956. Killed during the Suez Crisis. |
János Garay
|
HUN |
FEN |
Olympics / Referee |
1924—1936 |
†3 May 1945. Killed in Mauthausen concentration camp. |
Herbert Garbe
|
GER |
ART |
Olympics |
1932 |
|
Peter Hunter Gaskell
|
GBR |
ROW |
Non-starter |
1936 |
† 15 August 1944. Killed in action at Normandie. |
Jenő Gáspár
|
HUN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
Killed during the Battle of Budapest. |
Bert Gayler
|
GBR |
CRD |
Olympics |
1912 |
†23 June 1917. Killed by rifle fire during an ambush in a valley near Kotkai Bozi Khel. |
Bernhard von Gaza
|
GER |
ROW |
Olympics |
1908 |
†25 September 1917. Killed in action in World War I in Belgium. |
Alexander, Jonkheer van Geen
|
NED |
MPN |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
†13 June 1940. Wounded in action and died in the field hospital in Montaigu. |
Josef Genschieder
|
AUT |
CTR |
Olympics |
1936 |
†3 April 1943. Killed in action in World War II at the Eastern Front in Russia. |
Oszkár Gerde
|
HUN |
FEN |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†8 October 1944. Killed in Mauthausen concentration camp. |
František Getreuer
|
CZE
TCH |
WPO |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1928 |
†15 August 1942. Killed in action 1942 (500 m away from the runway of the airport). |
Henry Goldsmith
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
1908 |
†9 May 1915. Killed in action at Fromelles. |
Lajos Gönczy
|
HUN |
ATH |
Olympics / 1906 / Non-starter |
1900—1908 |
†4 December 1915. Killed in action in area of Galicia and Lodomeria. |
Otoniel Gonzaga
|
PHI |
SHO |
Olympics |
1936 |
Killed in World War II. |
Jan Górny
|
POL |
BOX |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1900 |
†9 September 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Isidore Goudeket
|
NED |
GAR |
Olympics |
1908 |
†9 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Alfred Graaf
|
GER |
BOX |
Non-starter |
1936 |
†9 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Gustav Grachegg
|
AUT |
EDR |
Olympics |
1928 |
†13 May 1945. Reported missing in action in the Soviet Union on 13 May 1945. |
Mark Graham
|
CAN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1992 |
†4 September 2006. Killed by friendly fire. |
Ámon von Gregurich
|
HUN |
FEN |
Olympics |
1900 |
†28 June 1915. Killed in action during World War I. |
Félix Grimonprez
|
FRA |
HOC |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1924 |
Shot dead by the soldiers of the Arrow Cross movement. |
Mārtiņš Grundmanis
|
LAT |
BKB |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1945. Died in prisoner-of-war camp in Rīga. |
Josef Gumpold
|
GER |
NCB |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1941. Killed in action during World War II. |
Nemesio de Guzman
|
PHI |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Jur Haak
|
NED |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1908 |
†30 January 1945. Killed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp (GER). |
Ru van der Haar
|
NED |
HOC |
Olympics |
1936 |
†15 May 1943. Died in a Japanese internment camp. |
Frederick Habberfield
|
GBR |
CTR |
Olympics |
1924 |
†12 December 1943. Killed by German torpedo attack on his submarine. |
Emil Hagelberg
|
FIN |
MPN |
Olympics / Other |
1920—1924 |
†1941. Killed in action in World War II. |
David Haig-Thomas
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
1932 |
†6 June 1944. Killed in action in Normandy on early hours of D Day. |
Jaroslav Hainz
|
BOH |
TEN |
Olympics |
1912 |
Died in Russia in World War I. |
Saul Hallap
|
EST |
WLF |
Olympics |
1924 |
†18 July 1941. Executed by the Soviets when the front reached Põltsamaa. |
Juho Halme
|
FIN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†1 February 1918. Killed in action in Finnish Civil War. |
Győző Halmos
|
HUN |
GAR |
Olympics |
1912 |
†1945. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
Wyndham Halswelle
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics / 1906 |
1906—1908 |
†31 March 1915. Killed by a sniper's bullet in France. |
Helmut Hamann
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†22 June 1941. Killed in action in World War II. |
Ahmed Hamdy
|
EGY |
SHO |
Olympics |
1952 |
†14 October 1973. Killed during the Yom Kippur War. |
Hannes Hansen
|
GER |
HBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†28 June 1944. Missing in action since 1944 when he did not return from an enemy flight. |
Rudolf Harbig
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†5 March 1944. Sent to the Eastern Front, Harbig died in the Ukraine, near Novo Archangelsk. |
Walter Hasenfus
|
USA |
CMA |
Olympics |
1936 |
†8 December 1944. Killed in action in World War II, while serving with the 307th Infantry, 77th Division in the South Pacific, most likely in the Philippines. |
Josef Hasenöhrl
|
AUT |
ROW |
Olympics |
1936 |
†13 March 1945. Killed in action in World War II. |
Franz Haslberger
|
GER |
SJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
†19 September 1939. Killed in action at the beginning of World War II. |
Kurt Hasse
|
GER |
EJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
†9 January 1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
George Hawkins
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
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 |
SWM |
Olympics / 1906 |
1906—1912 |
†29 August 1918. Killed in action in World War I. |
Hermann Heibel
|
GER |
SWM |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1920 |
†20 February 1944. Tortured to death in the Scheveningen prison as a member of the Dutch Underground. |
Frans Heikkinen
|
FIN |
CCS |
Olympics |
1936 |
†8 October 1943. Died from a brain hemorrhage during the Continuation War. |
Oskar Hekš
|
CZE
TCH |
ATH |
Olympics |
1932 |
†8 March 1944. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Ilmari Helle
|
FIN |
ATH |
Non-starter |
1928 |
|
Fritz Hendrix
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1932 |
†30 August 1941. Killed in action on the Eastern Front, near Leningrad. |
Max Herrmann
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1912 |
†29 January 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Otto Herschmann
|
AUT |
FEN/SWM |
Olympics / 1906 / Non-starter / Referee / Administrator |
1896—1928 |
†17 June 1942. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Felix Hess
|
NED |
ART |
Olympics |
1928 |
†9 April 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Hans Hieble
|
GER |
MSP |
Non-Medal |
1936 |
†Spring 1945. Killed in action. |
Eduard Hiiop
|
EST |
FSK |
Olympics / Other |
1928—1936 |
†24 August 1941. Executed by Soviets. |
Robert Hilliard
|
IRL |
BOX |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†8 May 1945. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Tommy Hitchcock
|
USA |
POL |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1932 |
†1944. Killed during the Warsaw Uprising. |
Gunnar Höckert
|
FIN |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
†27 April 1945. Died between 1940 and 1945. |
Christian Holzenberg
|
GER |
CMA |
Olympics |
1936 |
Killed in action on the Eastern front during World War II in Kurzewo, Russia |
Thomas Homewood
|
GBR |
TOW |
Olympics |
1908 |
†1 February 1945. Killed in a V2 rocket attack on London. |
Xaver Hörmann
|
GER |
CMA |
Olympics |
1936 |
†23 February 1943. Killed in action in World War II. |
Gösta Horn
|
SWE |
DIV |
Olympics |
1928 |
†10 December 1943. Died in the crash of a military plane off the northern tip of Öland. |
Václav Hošek
|
CZE
TCH |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†June 1943. Arrested by the Gestapo and shot while trying to escape. |
Robert Huber
|
GER |
ROW |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1928—1932 |
†18 August 1942. Missing in action since 1 July 1942 in Russia. |
George Hutson
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
1912 |
†14 September 1914. Killed in action only five weeks after the outbreak of World War I. |
Olli Huttunen
|
FIN |
MSP |
Non-Medal |
1936 |
†19 February 1940. Killed in action near Impilakhti on the Karelian Isthmus during the Winter War. |
Arvīds Immermanis
|
LAT |
CRD |
Olympics |
1936 |
†July 1947. Died in a Soviet prison camp. |
Milutin Ivković
|
SRB
YUG |
FBL |
Olympics |
1928 |
†25 May 1943. Shot to death in Jajinci Concentration Camp. |
Mozes Jacobs
|
NED |
GAR |
Olympics |
1928 |
†9 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Adolf Jäger
|
GER |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†21 November 1944. Died in a bombing raid. |
Kalle Jalkanen
|
FIN |
CCS |
Olympics |
1936 |
†5 September 1941. Killed when he stepped on a mine while on an intelligence gathering mission in Lempaala, Ingeria. |
Edmund Jankowski
|
POL |
ROW |
Olympics |
1928 |
†1 November 1939. Arrested by the Gestapo and shot near Fordon (now this is the district of Bydgoszcz). |
Akilles Järvinen
|
FIN |
ATH |
Olympics / Other |
1928—1936 |
†7 March 1943. Died when his military aircraft crashed during a test flight. |
Kalle Järvinen
|
FIN |
ATH |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1928—1932 |
†25 August 1941. Killed in by a fellow solider in a drunken brawl during the Winter War. |
Józef Jaworski
|
POL |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
Killed in action during the Battle of Warszawa in 1939. |
Albert Jenicot
|
FRA |
FBL |
Olympics |
1908 |
†22 February 1916. An under-lieutenant with the 165th Regiment D Infantry, he was killed in action in World War I. |
John Jenkinson
|
GBR |
FEN |
Non-Medal |
1908 |
†13 October 1915. Killed in action in France. |
Walther Jesinghaus
|
GER |
GAR |
Olympics |
1912 |
†1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
Jin Hwan
|
JPN
KOR |
ART |
Olympics |
1936 |
†4 January 1951. Killed by a grenade that hit his hometown during the Korean War. |
Jin Guidi
|
CHN |
BOX |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1937. Killed during the Second Sino-Japanese War. |
Birger Johansson
|
FIN |
CSP |
Olympics |
1936 |
†3 January 1940. Killed in action at the Battle of Summa. |
Ernst, Jonkheer de Jonge
|
NED |
ROW |
Olympics |
1936 |
†3 September 1944. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
Jānis Jordāns
|
LAT |
ATH |
Olympics |
1928 |
†25 February 1944. Died in a Soviet prison camp. |
Emil Juracka
|
AUT |
HBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†21 February 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Henry Jurado
|
PHI |
WRE |
Olympics |
1936 |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
1924 |
†19 August 1942. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Endre Kabos
|
HUN |
FEN |
Olympics |
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 |
SJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
†23 February 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Eddy Kahn
|
NED |
EVE |
Olympics |
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/MPN |
Olympics |
1912—1920 |
†21 October 1943. Wounded and later died in a war hospital. |
Ahmed Kandil
|
EGY |
SWM |
Olympics |
1948 |
†9 May 1950. Killed in action. |
Roman Kantor
|
POL |
FEN |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1943. Killed in Maidanek concentration camp. |
Ted Kara
|
USA |
BOX |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II near Mikhaylova in the Soviet Union. |
Joachim Karsch
|
GER |
ART |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics / Referee |
1936 |
†4 December 1941. Killed in action in World War II near Tobruk. |
Elias Katz
|
FIN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
†26 December 1947. Died in Palestine in 1947. |
Otto Kaundynia
|
GER |
HBL |
Coach |
1936 |
†9 June 1940. Killed in action in France. |
Tatsugo Kawaishi
|
JPN |
SWM |
Olympics |
1932 |
†17 March 1945. Killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima. |
Zdzisław Kawecki
|
POL |
EVE |
Olympics |
1936 |
†April 1940. A prisoner in the Soviet camp for Polish officers in Kozielsk, he was murdered in Katyń. |
Ernest Keeley
|
RSA |
SHO |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1908 |
†13 November 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Paul Kenna
|
GBR |
EJP/EVE |
Olympics |
1912 |
†30 August 1915. Killed in action at the Battle of Gallipoli. |
Robert Keres
|
EST |
BKB |
Olympics |
1936 |
†26 October 1946. Died from wounds sustained in World War II. |
Reinhold Kesküll
|
EST |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
†1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Lauri Kettunen
|
FIN |
FEN/MPN |
Olympics |
1928—1936 |
†15 August 1941. Killed in action near Kiestinki during the Continuation War. |
Ferdinand Kiefler
|
AUT |
HBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†13 January 1945. Killed in action during World War II. |
Alfred Kienzle
|
GER |
WPO |
Olympics |
1936 |
†4 September 1940. Killed in action during World War II. |
Jaan Kikkas
|
EST |
WLF |
Olympics |
1924 |
†9 March 1944. Killed in Tallinn during a bombing raid by the Soviets. |
Desmond Kingsford
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
1936 |
†10 August 1944. Killed in action in Normandy. |
Alister Kirby
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
1912 |
†29 March 1917. Served as a captain in the Rifle Brigade and died from illness in 1917. |
Michael Kirchmann
|
GER |
MSP |
Non-Medal |
1936 |
†15 November 1942. Killed in action during the Siege of Leningrad. |
Frederick Kitching
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908 |
†1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
Aaro Kiviperä
|
FIN |
MPN |
Olympics |
1936 |
†11 July 1944. Killed in combat at Vuosalmi. |
Kārlis Kļava
|
LAT |
SHO |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1941. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Josef Klein
|
CZE
TCH |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1941. Member of the Czech resistance. Died shortly after release from prison - possibly from effects of torture. |
Józef Klukowski
|
POL |
ART |
Olympics |
1932—1936 |
†29 April 1944. Killed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. |
Artur Knautz
|
GER |
HBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1 August 1943. Reported missing-in-action in Russia. |
Dmitry Knyazhevich
|
RUS |
FEN |
Olympics |
1912 |
†1918 Killed during the Russian Revolution |
František Kobzík
|
CZE
TCH |
ROW |
Olympics |
1936 |
†7 May 1944. Committed suicide to avoid capture during World War II. |
Erland Koch
|
GER |
SHO |
Olympics |
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 |
CRD |
Olympics |
1928 |
†28 June 1944. Died in World War II (between 1939-1945). |
Adolf Kofler
|
AUT |
CRD |
Olympics |
1912 |
†13 April 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Yasuhiko Kojima
|
JPN |
SWM |
Olympics |
1936 |
†12 June 1945. Killed in action at Okinawa. |
August Kop
|
NED |
HOC |
Olympics |
1928 |
†30 April 1945. Died while constructing the Pekanburu railroad on Sumatra. |
Dora Köring
|
GER |
TEN |
Olympics |
1912 |
†13 February 1945. Died in the infamous bombing of Dresden. |
Elmar Korko
|
EST |
ROW |
Olympics |
1936 |
†10 July 1941. Executed by Soviet soldiers when the front reached Tartu. |
Kurt Körner
|
GER |
SJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
Killed in action in World War II, and was declared dead in 1945. |
Heinz Körvers
|
GER |
HBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†29 December 1942. Listed as missing in action near Stalingrad. |
Lauri Koskela
|
FIN |
WRE |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
†4 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II. |
Aleksander Kowalski
|
POL |
IHO |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1943. Died during bombardment, with precise date and place unknown. |
Roman Kramsztyk
|
POL |
ART |
Olympics |
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. |
Paul Kraus
|
GER |
SJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
†20 February 1942. Killed in action in World War II in the Soviet Union |
Helmut Krause
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1928 |
†26 February 1944. Killed in action during World War II as a batallion leader. |
Georg Krogmann
|
GER |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
Killed in action in 1915 in Poland during World War I. |
Herbert von Kuhlberg
|
RUS |
SWM |
Olympics |
1912 |
†September 12 1915. Died as a result of a war wound |
Leonhard Kukk
|
EST |
WLF |
Olympics |
1928 |
†1944. A civilian who was killed by Soviet troops. |
Ernst Künz
|
AUT |
FBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†21 August 1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Willi Kürten
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†18 July 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Stanisław Kuryłłowicz
|
POL |
ROW |
Olympics |
1936 |
†2 February 1945. Killed in action in Poznań. |
Albert Kusnets
|
EST |
WRE |
Olympics |
1924—1928 |
†1942. Starved to death in a Soviet prison camp. |
Janusz Kusociński
|
POL |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
†27 April 1942. Starved to death in a Soviet prison camp. |
Nikolay Kynin
|
RUS |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†1916. Killed in World War I. |
Harvey Lacelle
|
CAN |
BOX |
Olympics |
1936 |
†28 June 1942. Killed during a bombing raid over Berlin. |
Hans Lahr
|
CZE
TCH |
NCB/SJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
†24 February 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Ivan Laing
|
GBR |
HOC |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1924 |
†27 May 1945. Died while constructing the Pekanburu railroad on Sumatra. |
John Lander
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
†18 January 1943. Died during the Siege of Leningrad. |
Johann Langmayr
|
AUT |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1943. Missing in action in 1943 near Stalingrad. |
Octave Lapize
|
FRA |
CTR |
Olympics |
1908 |
†14 July 1917. Killed when his plane was shot down near Verdun. |
Martti Lappalainen
|
FIN |
CCS |
Olympics |
1928—1932 |
†6 October 1941. Killed in action in the Continuation War on the banks of Svir River. |
Béla Las-Torres
|
HUN |
SWM |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†13 October 1915. Killed in action in Italy in World War I. |
Karl Leban
|
AUT |
MPN/SSK |
Olympics |
1936 |
†28 July 1941. Killed in action in World War II in the Ukraine. |
Henry Leeke
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908 |
†29 May 1915. Killed in action on the eve of his battalion's departure for Gallipoli. |
Emmanuel Legaspi
|
PHI |
BOX |
Olympics |
1988 |
†7 May 2006. Killed in action in the Iraq War. |
Erich Lehmann
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1912 |
†9 July 1918. Listed as missing in action in World War I. |
Julien Lehouck
|
BEL |
ATH |
Olympics |
1920 |
†25 February 1944. Member of the Belgian resistance, arrested and hung in Concentration Camp Breendonk. |
Wilhelm Leichum
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1928 |
†1 February 1945. Missing in action in World War II. |
Ludwig Leinberger
|
GER |
FBL |
Olympics |
1928 |
†3 March 1943. Died in a military hospital in 1943 after surgery for appendicitis. |
Hermann Lemp
|
GER |
MPN |
Olympics |
1936 |
†9 November 1943. Listed as missing in action near Witebsk, now in Belarus. |
Feliks Leparsky
|
RUS |
FEN |
Olympics |
1912 |
†10 January 1917. Killed in action in World War I. |
Bertrand, Count de Lesseps
|
FRA |
FEN |
Olympics |
1908 |
†28 August 1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
Ismaël de Lesseps
|
FRA |
FEN |
Olympics |
1908 |
†30 September 1915. Killed in action during World War I. |
Herbert Leupold
|
GER |
CCS/MSP |
Olympics / Non-Medal |
1936 |
†22 December 1942. Died from his war wounds in a military hospital near Navaginskaya in the Soviet Union. |
Dave Lindsay
|
NZL |
SWM |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
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 |
BKB |
Olympics |
1936 |
Killed in action in World War II on 29 July 1944. |
Eugeniusz Lokajski
|
POL |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
†14 July 1943. Killed in action during Operation Husky on Sicily. |
Ivan Lönnberg
|
SWE |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1932 |
†22 September 1939. He was killed in action in Buraków near Warsaw during the September Campaign. |
Jerzy Łucki
|
POL |
BOB |
Olympics |
1928 |
†18 April 1939. Killed in action during the September Campaign in Kuty (now on Ukraine). |
Paul Lüders
|
GER |
BPO |
Non-Medal |
1908 |
†26 February 1916. Killed in action in World War I in Spincourt. |
Jaakko Luoma
|
FIN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
†12 March 1940. Killed in action near Uomaalla (Impilahti) on the Karelian Isthmus. |
Eduard von Lütcken
|
GER |
EVE |
Olympics |
1912 |
†15 September 1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
Georges Lutz
|
FRA |
CTR |
Olympics |
1908 |
†31 January 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Willy Lützow
|
GER |
SWM |
Olympics |
1912 |
†1915. Killed in action during World War I. |
William Lyshon
|
USA |
WRE |
Olympics |
1912 |
†13 October 1918. Killed in the final days of World War I. |
Jeffrey MacDougall
|
GBR |
MPN |
Olympics |
1932—1936 |
†December 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Henry Macintosh
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
1912 |
†26 July 1918. Died from wounds sustained in the Second Battle of the Somme. |
Duncan Mackinnon
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
1908 |
†9 October 1917. Killed in action at Ypres in the Battle of Passchendaele. |
Gilchrist Maclagan
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
1908 |
†25 April 1915. Killed in action in Pilckem Ridge, at the Second Battle of Ypres. |
Gustav Mader
|
AUT |
BOB |
Olympics |
1928 |
†18 April 1945. Killed in action in World War II near Rijeka. |
Eugène Maës
|
FRA |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1912 |
†30 March 1945. Killed in Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp (GER). |
Hans Maier
|
GER |
ROW |
Olympics |
1928—1936 |
†6 March 1943. Killed in action at the North African Front near Mareth, Tunisia. |
Edouard Majolier
|
GBR |
ROW |
Non-starter |
1908 |
Died at home as a result of contracting pneumonia whilst serving on the Western Front. |
Aleksander Małecki
|
POL |
FEN |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†5 June 1942. Killed in action near Pogost, on the Karelian Isthmus. |
Hendrik Mangelaar Meertens
|
NED |
HOC |
Non-starter |
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 |
Olympics |
1928 |
Died during the Greco-Italian War. |
Clayton Mansfield
|
USA |
MPN |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1928—1932 |
†16 November 1944. Kidnapped and killed by guerillas. |
François Marits
|
NED |
SHO |
Olympics |
1924 |
†2 April 1945. Died in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. |
Hans Marr
|
GER |
SJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
†20 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II, near Minsk, Belarus, with the rank of Unteroffizier. |
Nemesio Martínez
|
ESP |
EJP |
Olympics |
1924 |
†1936. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. |
Martti Marttelin
|
FIN |
ATH |
Olympics |
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/MPN |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†5 September 1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
Antoni Maszewski
|
POL |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1942. Killed in action at Guadalcanal. |
Leopold Mayer
|
AUT |
SWM |
1906 |
1906 |
†21 September 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Ludwig Mayer
|
GER |
MSP |
Non-Medal |
1928 |
Missing in action in World War II since New Year 1945. |
D'Arcy McCrea
|
IRL |
TEN |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1912 |
†4 November 1914. Killed in the First Battle of Ypres during World War I. |
Johan Meimer
|
EST |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
BKB |
Olympics |
1936 |
†14 July 1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Elias Melkman
|
NED |
GAR |
Olympics |
1928 |
†3 January 1942. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Willi Menne
|
GER |
ROW |
Olympics |
1936 |
†27 March 1945. Killed in action during World War II somewhere in Slovakia. |
Toni Merkens
|
GER |
CTR |
Olympics |
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. |
Fernand Mermoud
|
FRA |
CCS |
Olympics |
1936 |
†9 June 1940. Killed in action with the 67e bataillon de chasseurs alpins. |
Robert Merz
|
AUT |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†30 August 1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
Fritz Messner
|
GER |
HOC |
Olympics |
1936 |
†7 November 1945. Killed in action during World War II. |
Georg Mickler
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1912 |
†14 June 1915. Killed in action during World War I somewhere in Poland. |
Konrad Miersch
|
GER |
MPN |
Olympics |
1932 |
†2 March 1942. Killed in action at the Eastern Front with the rank of SS Major. |
Jovan Mikić
|
SRB
YUG |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†10 November 1944 (or 11 October 1944). Killed during World War II. |
Felice Milano
|
ITA |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1912 |
†11 November 1915. Killed at the Fourth Battle of the Isonzo during World War I. |
Lion van Minden
|
NED |
FEN |
Olympics |
1908 |
†6 September 1944. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Josef Miner
|
GER |
BOX |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Tsutomu Mitsudome
|
JPN |
ROW |
Olympics |
1936 |
†June 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa as Captain of the 1st Machine Gun Squadron |
Aleksander Mitt
|
EST |
SSK |
Olympics |
1928—1936 |
†18 April 1942. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Nicolaas Moerloos
|
BEL |
GAR/WLF |
Olympics |
1920—1924 |
†5 September 1944. Killed as a member of the Belgian resistance during an encounter with German forces, shortly before liberation. |
Ernst Mohr
|
GER |
GAR |
Olympics |
1904 |
†18 February 1916. Died as a Russian prisoner of war. |
Richard Mohr
|
FRA |
FEN |
1906 |
1906 |
†17 May 1918. Killed in action. |
Abraham Mok
|
NED |
GAR |
Olympics |
1908 |
†29 February 1944. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Bart Mollin
|
BEL |
WRE |
Olympics |
1924 |
†May 1945, Theresienstadt concentration camp. |
Percy Molson
|
CAN |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
SAL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†15 November 1941. Killed while flying back to England. |
Élie Monnier
|
FRA |
SHO |
Olympics |
1936 |
†12 May 1941. Engineer of the Maritime Engineering and died accidentally while exploring in scuba the wreck of the battleship "Bretagne" in Mers El Kebir in Algeria. Designated officially as "mort pour la France". |
Jacob van Moppes
|
NED |
WRE |
Olympics |
1908 |
†26 March 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Alfred Motté
|
FRA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†31 October 1918. Killed in action in World War I. |
Imre Mudin
|
HUN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
|
István Mudin
|
HUN |
ATH |
Olympics / 1906 / Non-starter / Other |
1906—1912 |
†22 July 1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
Juan Muguerza
|
ESP |
ATH |
Olympics |
1920 |
†5 May 1937. Died in a bombing accident. |
Eugen Mühlberger
|
GER |
WLF |
Olympics |
1928 |
†1 August 1944. Missing in action in Russia. |
Michael Murach
|
GER |
BOX |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1 August 1941. Died during the Siege of Leningrad. |
Jack Murdoch
|
CAN |
ROW |
Olympics |
1928 |
†10 October 1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Camillo Mussi
|
ITA |
IHO |
Olympics |
1936 |
Killed in action in air battle over Egypt. |
Henrik Nádler
|
HUN |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1924 |
†May 1944. Died in work camp during World War II. |
Saburo Nagao
|
JPN |
ATH |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1932—1936 |
Died in World War II in PNG. |
Eiichi Nakamura
|
JPN |
HOC |
Olympics |
1932 |
†27 May 1945. Killed during air raid in World War II. |
Edward Nash
|
GBR |
EJP/EVE |
Olympics |
1912 |
†21 February 1915. Killed in action during World War I. |
Helmut Naudé
|
GER |
MPN |
Olympics |
1932 |
†3 February 1943. Killed in action at the Eastern Front with the rank of Oberst. |
Georges de la Nézière
|
FRA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1896 |
†9 October 1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
Grigory Nikitin
|
RUS |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†1917. Killed in World War I. |
Takeichi, Baron Nishi
|
JPN |
EJP/EVE |
Olympics |
1932—1936 |
†22 March 1945. Possibly committed suicide during the Battle of Iwo Jima. |
Jules Noël
|
FRA |
ATH |
Olympics / Other |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
†15 February 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Lea Nordheim
|
NED |
GAR |
Olympics |
1928 |
†2 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
John Norman
|
GBR |
CTR |
Olympics |
1908 |
† 9 August 1916. Killed in action. |
Mauri Noroma
|
FIN |
GAR |
Olympics |
1928—1936 |
†23 December 1939. Killed in action on the Karelian Isthmus during the Soviet-Finnish Winter War. |
Amador Obordo
|
PHI |
BKB |
Olympics |
1936 |
Killed during World War II. |
Masayoshi Ochiai
|
JPN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1932 |
Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Sueo Oe
|
JPN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†24 December 1941. Killed in action in World War II. |
Simon Okker
|
NED |
FEN |
Olympics / 1906 |
1906—1908 |
†6 March 1944. Killed in Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. |
Charles Oldaker
|
GBR |
GAR |
Olympics |
1908 |
†26 September 1915 Killed in action during World War I during the Battle of Loos. |
Kurt Oleska
|
GER |
BKB |
Olympics |
1936 |
Missing in action since Januar 9, 1945 in Russia. |
Abraham d'Oliveira
|
NED |
GAR |
Olympics |
1908 |
†26 March 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Harcourt Ommundsen
|
GBR |
SHO |
Olympics |
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. |
Heinrich Paal
|
EST |
FBL |
Olympics |
1924 |
†18 December 1941. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Charley Paddock
|
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1920—1928 |
†21 July 1943. Died in a plane crash near Sitka, Alaska. |
Franc Palme
|
SLO
YUG |
SJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
† 27 February 1946 |
Tom Parkin
|
GBR |
GAR |
Olympics |
1908 |
Killed in action during the Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) |
Tjeerd Pasma
|
NED |
ATH/MPN |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1928 |
Died when a V1 flying bomb prematurely exploded. |
Alan Patterson
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
GAR |
Olympics |
1920 |
†3 February 1944. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
Árpád Pédery
|
HUN |
GAR |
Olympics |
1912 |
†21 October 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Fritz Pellkofer
|
GER |
CCS |
Olympics |
1928 |
†23 January 1943. Missing in action in World War II in Russia. |
Emil Perška
|
CRO
YUG |
FBL |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1920—1928 |
†May 1945. Executed during World War II. |
Jacques Person
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics / Referee |
1928—1936 |
†20 January 1943. Killed in Dawidowka concentration camp. |
Arvo Peussa
|
FIN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
†19 July 1941. Killed in action near Salmi on the Karelian Isthmus, during the Continuation War. |
Pierre Peyrusson
|
FRA |
SWM |
Olympics |
1900 |
†16 September 1914. At the Meuse |
William Philo
|
GBR |
BOX |
Olympics |
1908 |
†7 July 1916. Killed in action in World War I during the battle of the Somme in France. |
Étienne Piquiral
|
FRA |
RGB |
Olympics |
1924 |
†13 March 1945. Died of illness in a POW camp during World War II. |
Hermann Plaskuda
|
GER |
FEN |
Olympics |
1912 |
†21 March 1918. Killed in action in World War I. His grave is in the war cemetery in St. Quentin, France. |
Werner Plath
|
GER |
SWM |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1945. Executed by the SS in 1945. No further details known. |
Wanda Pleszczyńska
|
POL |
ART |
Olympics |
1928 |
Shot by the Germans in 1943 after having been arrested as member of the Polish resistance movement. |
Otto Pohla
|
EST |
WRE |
Olympics |
1928 |
†July 1941. Drowned when German submarines drowned the prison ship on which he was travelling. |
Ans Polak
|
NED |
GAR |
Olympics |
1928 |
†23 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Léon Ponscarme
|
FRA |
CTR |
Olympics |
1900 |
†24 November 1916. Killed in action in World War I in Verdun. |
Janez Porenta
|
SLO
YUG |
GAR |
Olympics |
1924—1928 |
†June 1942. Member of the Yugoslav resistance. Executed by Italian forces. |
Chris Porter
|
GBR |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1908 |
†4 June 1915. Killed in action at Gallipoli serving with the Manchester Regiment. |
Marcel Pourchier
|
FRA |
MSP |
Non-Medal |
1928 |
†1 September 1944. Died in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. |
Bobby Powell
|
CAN |
TEN |
Olympics |
1908 |
Lieutenant in the 48th Canadian Infantry Battalion during World War I. Killed in action while fighting in France. |
Kenneth Powell
|
GBR |
ATH/TEN |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†18 February 1915. Killed in action while serving as a private in the HAC. |
Siegfried Powolny
|
AUT |
HBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†19 July 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Friedrich Karl, Prince von Preußen
|
GER |
EJP |
Olympics |
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 |
HOC |
Olympics |
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
|
GBR |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1908 |
†27 May 1917. Killed in action on the Western Front during the Battle of Arras. |
Manuel Puig
|
CUB |
ROW |
Olympics |
1948 |
†20 April 1961. Executed by the Cuban government for his part in helping the US led Bay of Pigs landings. |
Siegfried Purner
|
AUT |
HBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†3 February 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Joseph Racine
|
FRA |
CRD |
Olympics |
1912 |
†28 October 1914. With the 113th Regiment Infantry, he was killed in action in World War I. |
Thomas Raddall
|
GBR |
SHO |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1900 |
†5 May 1916. Killed in action in World War I. |
Richard Rau
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
GAR |
Olympics |
1908 |
Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, date unknown. |
Josef Rehm
|
GER |
MSP |
Non-Medal |
1928 |
Missing in action in World War II since July 1944. |
Walter von Reichenau
|
GER |
|
Administrator |
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 |
WLF |
Olympics |
1928 |
†1 January 1943. Reported missing-in-action during the Battle of Stalingrad. |
Toivo Reingoldt
|
FIN |
SWM |
Olympics |
1932 |
†28 September 1941. Killed in action after an air crash in Eastern Karelia. |
Olli Remes
|
FIN |
MSP |
Non-Medal |
1936 |
†31 December 1942. Killed in action near Vanozero on the Karelian Isthmus during the Continuation War. |
Peter Reynolds
|
USA |
LAX |
Non-Medal |
1928—1932 |
Died on a ship transporting prisoners of war from the Philippines to Japan |
Josef Rieder
|
GER |
CRD |
Olympics |
1912 |
†13 July 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Wilhelm Rietschel
|
GER |
ART |
Olympics |
1936 |
†18 December 1941. Killed in action in Ropscha, Russia during World War I. |
Frederick Riley
|
GBR |
FBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†7 December 1942. Killed when his plane was shot down over France. |
Josef Ritz
|
AUT |
FEN |
Olympics / Referee |
1936 |
†31 July 1943. Killed in action in World War II near Kharkiv. |
John Robinson
|
GBR |
HOC |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
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 |
SWM |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1943. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Egon Roolaid
|
EST |
SWM |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Evžen Rošický
|
CZE
TCH |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1912 |
†19 August 1917. Killed in action in France. |
Albert Rowland
|
ANZ
NZL |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908 |
†23 July 1918. Killed in action during the Second Battle of The Marne. |
Marius Royet
|
FRA |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1908 |
†1915. Killed during World War I. |
Piet Ruimers
|
NED |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908 |
†6 April 1945. Executed by German soldiers on the beach of the Isle of Texel. |
Alfrēds Ruks
|
LAT
RUS |
ATH |
Olympics |
1912—1924 |
†30 November 1941. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Heinrich Sack
|
GER |
CSP |
Olympics |
1936 |
†13 September 1941. Buried in a military cemetery in Kyiv. |
Richard Sahla
|
GER |
EJP |
Olympics |
1928 |
†1942. Killed in action in World War II. |
Takahiro Saito
|
JPN |
SWM |
Olympics |
1924 |
Died in World War II, from pneumonia in Manila (PHI). |
Maurice Salomez
|
FRA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1900 |
†7 August 1916. Killed in action in World War I. |
Paolo Salvi
|
ITA |
GAR |
Olympics |
1912—1920 |
Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, date unknown. |
Heinz Sames
|
GER |
SSK |
Olympics |
1936 |
Missing in action in Volgograd during World War II. |
Ronald Sanderson
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
1908 |
†17 April 1918. Killed in action near Ypres. |
Ludwig Sauerhöfer
|
GER |
WRE |
Olympics |
1912 |
Killed in action during World War I. |
Felix Scheder-Bieschin
|
GER |
SAL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†2 September 1940. Died on a ship which was hit by a torpedo. |
Hans Scheele
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†23 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II at the Eastern Front. |
Adolf Scheffknecht
|
AUT |
GAR |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
†21 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Heinz Schlauch
|
GER |
SWM |
Olympics |
1936 |
†21 February 1945. Killed in action in World War II. |
Helmut Schlöske
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
HBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†21 January 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Eugen Schnalek
|
AUT |
CRD |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1944/1945. Killed during World War II, exact date unknown. |
Heinrich Schneidereit
|
GER |
TOW/WLF |
1906 |
1906 |
†30 September 1915. Killed in action as an artillery officer in France during World War I. |
Richard Schoemaker
|
NED |
FEN |
Olympics |
1908 |
†3 May 1942. Killed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. |
Hans Schönrath
|
GER |
BOX |
Olympics |
1928 |
†10 February 1945. Drowned when hospital ship "SS General von Steuben" sunk by a Soviet submarine. |
Koos Schouwenaar
|
NED |
ROW |
Olympics |
1928 |
†22 June 1941. Killed while flying back to England. |
Jakob Schüller
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1928 |
†22 January 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Franz Schüßler
|
AUT |
IHO |
Olympics |
1936 |
†August 1942 in a Russian prisoner-of-war camp in Yushnevo in the Tver Oblast. |
Arthur Tell Schwab
|
SUI |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924—1936 |
†27 February 1945. Died in an air raid bombing. |
Ludwig Schweickert
|
GER |
WRE |
Olympics |
1936 |
†11 July 1943. Killed in action defending the town of Orjol from recapture by the Soviet Army. |
Karl Schwitalle
|
GER |
WLF |
Olympics |
1936 |
†7 February 1945. Killed in action in World War II. |
Jos Seckel
|
NED |
ART |
Olympics |
1928—1932 |
Died with his wife and son during the Bezuidenhout bombardment in World War II. |
Werner Seelenbinder
|
GER |
WRE |
Olympics |
1936 |
†24 October 1944. Killed by beheading in Brandenburg Prison after years in concentration camps for leading resistance movements against the Nazis. |
Dmytro Sharpar
|
UKR |
FSK |
YOG |
2016 |
†23 January 2023 Killed during the Russia-Ukraine conflict |
Katsumi Shibata
|
JPN |
HOC |
Olympics |
1932 |
Died in World War II. |
Erich Siebert
|
GER |
WRE |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1947. Died during captivity post-World War II. |
Evald Sikk
|
EST |
WRE |
Olympics |
1936 |
†8 August 1945. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Farid Simaika
|
EGY |
DIV |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1928 |
†23 March 1944. Career Air Force officer, he was killed in a flying accident in World War II. |
André Six
|
FRA |
SWM |
Olympics |
1900 |
†1 April 1915. Killed in action. |
Pierre Six
|
FRA |
FBL |
Olympics |
1908 |
†7 July 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Jonas Slier
|
NED |
GAR |
Olympics |
1908 |
†5 November 1942. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Michel Soalhat
|
FRA |
ATH |
1906 |
1906 |
†25 September 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Tadeusz Sokołowski
|
POL |
EJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
†6 February 1943. Murdered by the Gestapo in Minsk (Belarus). |
Josip Šolc
|
CRO
YUG |
FBL |
Olympics |
1920 |
†24 September 1945. Ustaše member, executed by the Partisans. |
Andrzej Sołtan-Pereświat
|
POL |
ROW |
Olympics |
1928 |
Bombed in rail transport (4 officers, 20 privates), he died on September 4, 1939 in Nieszawa. |
Robert Somers-Smith
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
1908 |
†1 July 1916. Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. |
Eberhard Sorge
|
GER |
GAR |
Olympics |
1912 |
†6 August 1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
Herbert Southwell
|
GBR |
ROW |
Non-starter |
1908 |
†15 September 1916. Killed during the Battle of the Somme. |
Werner Spannagel
|
GER |
BOX |
Olympics |
1932 |
†23 December 1943. Sent to the Eastern Front, his death was reported on 23 December 1943. |
Sonny Spencer
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
1924 |
†16 April 1940. Executed in Katyn. |
Stane Šporn
|
SLO
YUG |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
† 1944 |
Alfred Staats
|
GER |
GAR |
Olympics |
1912 |
†22 October 1915. Killed in action during World War I. |
Richard Stanhope
|
GBR |
ROW |
Non-starter |
1908 |
†15 September 1916. Killed during the Battle of the Somme. |
Tomasz Stankiewicz
|
POL |
CTR |
Olympics |
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 |
IHO |
Olympics / Referee |
1928—1936 |
† Spring 1947. Died in an internment camp. |
Hugo Strauß
|
GER |
ROW |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1 November 1941. Killed in action during World War II near Goldayeva in the Soviet Union. |
Ludwig Stubbendorff
|
GER |
EVE |
Olympics |
1936 |
†17 August 1941.He and his Olympic horse, Nurmi, fought with the First Cavalry Brigade which invaded Poland as an independent unit under Third Army. Both died during the invasion. |
Jean, Marquis de Suarez d'Aulan
|
FRA |
BOB |
Olympics |
1924—1936 |
†8 October 1944. Pilot in World War II, died when his Dewoitine 520 was shot by a Messerschmidt. |
Karl Sudrich
|
AUT |
FEN |
Olympics |
1936 |
†18 September 1944. Died in a war hospital in Hungary from injuries sustained in World War II. |
Teodors Sukatnieks
|
LAT |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Gustav Sule
|
EST |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†3 April 1942. Starved to death in a Soviet prison camp. |
Bunta Suzuki
|
JPN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†10 July 1939. Killed in action in World War II. |
Fusashige Suzuki
|
JPN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†3 June 1945. Died in the Philippines. |
Hildegarde Švarce
|
LAT |
FSK |
Olympics |
1936 |
†4 December 1944. Died in the bombardment of Heilbronn. |
Stanisław Świętochowski
|
POL |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
SAL |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1908 |
†11 December 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Józef Szawara
|
POL |
ROW |
Olympics |
1924 |
† 5 August 1944 Killed during the Warsaw Uprising in World War II |
Géza Szegedy
|
HUN |
ATH |
1906 / Non-starter |
1906—1908 |
†1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
András Székely
|
HUN |
SWM |
Olympics |
1932 |
†January 1943. Killed in concentration camp. |
Henryk Szlązak
|
POL |
WRE |
Olympics |
1936 |
†30 September 1944. Killed by an artillery shell during the Warsaw Uprising. |
Kazimierz Szosland
|
POL |
EJP/EVE |
Olympics |
1924—1928 |
†20 April 1944. Fought in wars with Ukraine and Soviet Russia, and was killed in the forests of Grodziskiem Mazowiecki. |
Ilja Szrajbman
|
POL |
SWM |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1943. Killed in the Warsaw Ghetto. |
Georges Tainturier
|
FRA |
FEN |
Olympics / Referee |
1924—1932 |
†7 December 1944. Executed by the Nazis by decapitation with an ax. |
Teizo Takeuchi
|
JPN |
FBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†12 April 1946. Died in a detention camp in Siberia. |
Harald Tammer
|
EST |
ATH/WLF |
Olympics / Other |
1920—1924 |
†6 June 1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp. |
Mutsuo Taniguchi
|
JPN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Hans Tatzer
|
AUT |
IHO |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1928—1936 |
†23 August 1944. Killed in action during WW II in France |
Geoffrey Taylor
|
CAN |
ROW |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†24 April 1915. Missing, presumed killed, during the Second Battle of Ypres. |
Felix Tekusch
|
AUT |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1912 |
†21 May 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Franz Tempel
|
NED |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1920 |
†25 July 1944. Resistance fighter, executed during World War II. |
Hugh Thomson
|
CAN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
† 23 February 1943. Joined the Royal Air Force and was killed in an airplane crash in World War II. |
John Thornton
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1900 |
†28 July 1917. Killed in action during World War I. |
Raymond Tixier
|
FRA |
HOC |
Olympics |
1936 |
Aviator during WWII in the Fighter Squadron 2/4 La Fayette. Killed in action. |
Kay Todd, Jr.
|
USA |
AFB |
Non-Medal |
1932 |
†12 June 1944. Died on Normandie Beach went assaulting a German machine gun nest. |
Dragutin Tomašević
|
SRB |
ATH |
Olympics / Other |
1912 |
†1915. Killed in action during World War I in Serbia |
Freddie Tomlins
|
GBR |
FSK |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1948. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Martti Topelius-Tolamo
|
FIN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1928—1936 |
†14 March 1940. Wounded and died five days later in war hospital. |
Ernest Toussaint
|
LUX |
BOX |
Olympics |
1936 |
†14 November 1942. Shot in German Concentration camp Hinzert. |
Rudolf Trenkwitz
|
AUT |
EJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
†2 January 1942, Bombing of Gorky |
Kostas Tsiklitiras
|
GRE |
ATH |
Olympics / 1906 / Other |
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 |
HOC/LAX |
Olympics / Non-Medal |
1932—1936 |
†18 October 1944. His bomber was shot down over Belgium. |
Masayoshi Uchida
|
JPN |
DIV/SWM |
Olympics |
1920 |
†1945. Killed in action during World War II. |
Tokutaro Ukon
|
JPN |
FBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Martti Uosikkinen
|
FIN |
GAR |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†27 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 |
Olympics |
1928—1932 |
†April 1940. A prisoner in Kozielsk, he was shot and killed in the Katyń Massacre. |
Eugen Uuemaa
|
EST |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
†25 July 1941. Executed by the Soviets in Tallinn before the Germans invaded Estonia. |
Aleksey Uversky
|
RUS |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†1942. Civilian casualty of the Leningrad Blockade in World War II. |
Ladislav Vácha
|
CZE
TCH |
GAR |
Olympics |
1920—1928 |
†28 June 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Antal Vágó
|
HUN |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†30 December 1944. |
Hugo Väli
|
EST |
FBL |
Olympics |
1924 |
†1943. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Martial Van Schelle
|
BEL |
BOB/SWM |
Olympics |
1920—1936 |
†15 March 1943. Executed in transit camp Breendonk. |
Edmond Vanwaes
|
BEL |
ROW |
Olympics |
1912 |
† 31 May 1944. Died in Natzhausen-Struthof concentration camp in French Alsace |
Johannes van der Vegte
|
NED |
ROW |
Olympics |
1920 |
†15 March 1945. Died in a Japanese internment camp. |
Nikolai Vekšin
|
EST |
SAL |
Olympics |
1928 |
†15 January 1951. Died in a Soviet prison camp. |
Pierre Versteegh
|
NED |
EDR |
Olympics |
1928—1936 |
†3 May 1942. Killed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. |
Heino Veskila
|
EST |
BKB |
Olympics |
1936 |
†July 1941. Died in June or July 1941 as a prisoner-of-war. |
Justin Vialaret
|
FRA |
FBL |
Olympics |
1908 |
†30 September 1916. Killed in action in World War I. |
Charles Vigurs
|
GBR |
GAR |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
1928 |
†26 December 1944. Executed as a collaborator. |
Lorenzo Vitria
|
ESP |
BOX |
Olympics |
1924 |
†18 June 1941. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
Tola Vologe
|
FRA |
HOC |
Olympics |
1936 |
28 May 1944. Executed after being arrested by the Germans under the pretext of an escape attempt. |
Fidel Wagner
|
GER |
NCB |
Olympics |
1936 |
†14 February 1945. Missing in action during World War II. |
Sadao Wakizaka
|
JPN |
HOC |
Olympics |
1936 |
Died in World War II. |
Edmond Wallace
|
FRA |
FEN |
Olympics |
1900 |
†28 February 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Hans van Walsem
|
NED |
ROW |
Olympics |
1936 |
†2 January 1943. Killed in Neuengamme concentration camp. |
Konrad von Wangenheim
|
GER |
EVE |
Olympics |
1936 |
†28 January 1953. Died in a prisoner-of-war camp, possibly murdered. |
Tapio Wartiovaara
|
FIN |
SHO |
Olympics |
1936 |
†20 February 1940. Wounded at Battle of Taipale and died the next day in Rauha Military Hospital. |
Birger Wasenius
|
FIN |
SSK |
Olympics |
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 |
FBL |
Olympics |
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. |
George Watkins
|
USA |
AFB |
Non-Medal |
1932 |
†19 March 1945. Killed in the bombing of the USS Franklin |
Rudolf Watzl
|
AUT |
WRE |
1906 |
1906 |
†15 August 1915. Died from illness during World War I. |
Arthur Wear
|
USA |
TEN |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
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/SWM |
Olympics |
1920—1924 |
†20 November 1943. Died in Auschwitz concentration camp. |
Ernst Weiß
|
GER |
ART |
Olympics |
1928 |
†15 June 1940. Committed suicide after the Germans occupied Paris, rather than allowing himself to be deported to a concentration camp. |
Árpád Weisz
|
HUN |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1924 |
†31 October 1944. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
Gerardus van der Wel
|
NED |
ATH |
Olympics |
1920 |
†31 May 1945. Killed in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. |
Walter Werginz
|
AUT |
FBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†21 March 1944. Killed in action in the Ukraine. |
Paul Wevers
|
GER |
CMA |
Olympics |
1936 |
†4 March 1941. Died near Braunschweig in World War II when his plane crashed into the ground. |
Miguel White
|
PHI |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†30 August 1942. Killed in action in the Philippines. |
Carl Wiegand
|
GER |
GAR |
Olympics |
1900 |
†March 17 1917. Died in a field hospital. |
Israel Wijnschenk
|
NED |
GAR |
Olympics |
1928 |
†31 January 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Arthur Wilde
|
GBR |
SHO |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics / Non-starter |
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. |
Edward Williams
|
GBR |
ROW |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
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 |
GAR |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1908—1920 |
†16 April 1941. Killed in an air raid. |
Hans Woellke
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†22 March 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Heinz Wöllner
|
GER |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
†13 September 1943. Killed in action during World War II at the Western Front. |
Paul Wormser
|
FRA |
FEN |
Olympics |
1936 |
†17 August 1944. Executed by Germans in "Le massacre de Sainte-Radegonde". |
Matthias Wörndle
|
GER |
CCS |
Olympics |
1936 |
†15 October 1942. Killed in action in World War II near Kansodarsk in the Soviet Union. |
Roman Wörndle
|
GER |
ALP |
Olympics |
1936 |
†26 September 1944. Killed in action in World War II near Geilenkirchen in Germany. |
Jan Wrzosek
|
POL |
SHO |
Olympics |
1936 |
†3 September 1939. Infantry commander in the Polish Army. Killed in action during the September Campaign in Złoty Potok (Śląskie). |
Mikhail Yakovlev
|
RUS |
FBL |
Olympics |
1912 |
†1942. Civilian casualty of the Leningrad Blockade in World War II. |
Teófilo Yldefonso
|
PHI |
SWM |
Olympics |
1928—1936 |
†19 June 1942. Killed in concentration camp Capas, following the Bataan Death March. |
Richard Yorke
|
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†22 December 1914. Killed in action in World War I while serving as a sergeant in the London Scottish. |
Kiichi Yoshida
|
JPN |
SWM |
Olympics |
1936 |
Died in World War II in Mindanao (PHI). |
Miguel Zabalza
|
ESP |
FEN |
Olympics |
1924 |
†23 September 1925. Killed in action during the Rif War with Morocco. |
Janusz Zalewski
|
POL |
SAL |
Olympics |
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 Żebrowski
|
POL |
IHO |
Olympics |
1928 |
There are suspicions, that he was taken out to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he died. |
Hans Zehetner
|
AUT |
HBL |
Olympics |
1936 |
†29 December 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Heinrich Ziegler
|
GER |
FEN |
Olympics |
1912 |
Killed in action during World War I. |
Stanisław Ziffer
|
POL |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
Probably killed in action in September Campaign but the details are not known. |
Branko Ziherl
|
SLO
YUG |
DIV |
Olympics |
1936 |
†August 1942. Killed in Kočevski Rog. |
Ron Zinn
|
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1960—1964 |
†6 July 1965. Although assumed deceased, technically still listed as MIA (missing in action) in Vietnam. |
Mario Zorzi
|
ITA |
SHO |
Olympics |
1932—1936 |
†17 February 1944. Died at a bombing raid in Frascati near Rome. |
Feliks Żuber
|
POL |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
Olympics |
1908—1912 |
†24 October 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |