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Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War (722)

Athlete Nation(s) Sport(s) Role(s) Era Notes
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.
Günter 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 †5 December 1942. 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.
Maksym Halinichev UKR BOX YOG 2018 †10 March 2023. Died at the front in Chervonopopivka during the Russian-Ukraine War. Refused to compete at the European Championships in 2022 so he could join the air assault troops and defend his country.
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 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.
Walter Hoffmann GER ART Referee 1936 went missing in 1945 and was later declared dead.
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. Died 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.
Gyula Hornung HUN SWM Non-starter 1908 Hornung died in action in Novi Sad during World War I. From 1920 to 1938, an annual rowing competition was organized in his memory.
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.
Heinz Ihlert GER ART Referee 1936 died a few days before the end of World War II in the fighting for Berlin
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.
Willy Jaeckel GER ART Olympics 1928—1932 Died under the debris of the bomb shelter of his burned down apartment in Berlin.
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 †19 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.
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.
René Joannes-Powell BEL ATH Olympics / Non-starter 1920—1928 †11 May 1940. Accidentally killed as a spectator to the deliberate destruction of a bridge at Liège in attempt to halt the German invasion of Belgium.
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 †18 September 1943. 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.
Tatu Kolehmainen FIN WRE Olympics 1912 †7 April 1918. Killed in action in the Finnish Civil War.
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 Probably killed in World War II, declared dead as of 31 July 1949.
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.
Elli von Kropiwnicki AUT SWM Olympics 1936 Went missing during World War II.
František Kšír CZE
TCH		 ROW Olympics 1936 †5 September 1943.
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 Ukraine.
Gaston LeClercq BEL ATH Olympics 1924 Killed by the Gestapo during WWII.
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.
František Leikert CZE
TCH		 DIV Olympics 1936 †18 April 1944.
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.
Karel Lescrauwaet BEL BOX Olympics 1936 Killed in WWII, as a member of the Belgian Front de l'Indépendance/Onafhankelijkheidsfront.
Bertrand, Comte de Lesseps FRA FEN Olympics 1908 †28 August 1918. Killed in action during World War I.
Ismaël, Comte 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.
Gusztáv Lifkai HUN HOC Olympics 1936 Lifkai died in the World War II on the Russian front
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.