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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. Stefan Adamczak Male POL ATH †September 1939. Fought in the September campaign, he was killed in action near Katowice. Herbert Adamski Male GER ROW †11 August 1941. Killed in action at Szolty in the Soviet Union. Stella Agsteribbe Female NED GYM †17 September 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Iwao Aizawa Male JPN ATH Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. Andrey Akimov Male RUS FTB †1916. Killed during World War I. Gordon Alexander Male GBR FEN †24 April 1917. Killed in action during World War I. Abdurahman Ali Male PHI SWI Killed during World War II. Arno Almqvist Male RUS MOP †5 March 1940. Killed in action in Mikkeli from bombing during the Winter War. Virgilius Altmann Male AUT CYC †17 October 1943. Killed in action in World War II in Byelorussia. Erich Altosaar Male EST BAS †11 October 1941. Died in Soviet prison camp. Max Amann Male GER WAP †24 December 1945. Missing in action. Artur Amon Male EST BAS †August 1944. Killed in action in World War II. Laurie Anderson Male GBR ATH †9 November 1914. Killed in action while serving with the Cheshire Regiment. William Anderson Male GBR ATH †April 1915. Killed in action, France. Géo André Male FRA ATH †4 May 1943. Rugby international for France. Killed in action (shot down). Nikolaos Andreadakis Male GRE ATH †1920. Killed during the Turkish- Greek War. Jan Ankerman Male NED HOK †27 December 1942. Died in a Japanese internment camp in Burma. Isakas Anolikas Male LTU CYC †1943. Shot at Ninth Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania, during World War II Shigeo Arai Male JPN SWI †19 July 1944. Killed in action during World War II. Hikoroku Arimoto Male JPN GYM Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. Albert Arnheiter Male GER ROW †26 April 1945. Killed in action in the last days of World War II, somewhere in Italy. Henry Ashington Male GBR ATH †31 January 1917. Killed in action, France. Louis Bach Male FRA FTB †16 September 1914. Killed in action. Jochen Balke Male GER SWI †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 Male GER ART Missed in action during World War II. Józef Baran-Bilewski Male POL ATH †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 Male ITA FTB Disappeared during a World War II reconnaissance flight. József Barna Male HUN FTB †February 1943. Died in World War II either as a soldier or in a labor camp, details uncertain. Franz Barsicke Male GER ATH †1944. Killed in action during World War II. Fritz Bartholomae Male GER ROW †12 September 1915. Killed in action during World War I. Franz Bartl Male AUT HAN †12 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II. Helmut Barysz Male POL SWI Declared missing in January 1945 and dead in 1952 Julije Bauer Male YUG ATH †15 March 1945. Killed in action in Pančevo. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 1/17 3/20/2020 Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Athlete Gender Country Sport Notes Georg Baumann Male RUS WRE Missing-in-action during World War I, but date and place not known. Addi Baumgarten Male GER BOX †2 October 1942. Died during the Siege of Leningrad. His friends buried him on the road to Vitebsk. Artur Bäumle Male GER ATH †6 January 1942. Missing in action since 6 January 1942 in Stalingrad. Karl Bechler Male GER ATH He died from shrapnel bullet in the last days of World War II in the basement apartment of a house in Gdansk. Martin Beckmann Male GER ATH Missed in action since 1944 in World War II. Béla Békessy Male HUN FEN †6 July 1916. Killed in action during World War I. Heinrich Bender Male GER ROW In 1943 he was killed-in-action during World War II in the golf of Corinth. Emil Benecke Male GER WAP †12 August 1945. Died in prisoner-of- war camp. Isaac Bentham Male GBR WAP †15 May 1917. Killed in action during Battle of Arras. Franz Berghammer Male AUT HAN †30 June 1944. Killed in action during World War II. Michelangelo Bernasconi Male ITA ROW †21 March 1943. Killed in action in World War II in Tunisia. Hans Bernhardt Male GER CYC †29 November 1940. Killed in action during World War II. Herberts Bērtulsons Male LAT ASK †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 Male GBR CYC †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. Kazimierz Bocheński Male POL SWI †May 1940. Was murdered with all the other prisoners in Starobielsk, one of three camps for Polish officers in Soviet Union. Bocheński died either in Starobielsk or Kharkov – it is not certain. Renon Boissière Male FRA ATH †25 September 1915. Killed in action in World War I. Kārlis Bone Male LAT FTB †13 November 1941. Died in a Soviet prison camp. Antonio Bonilla Male ESP SHO †9 November 1937. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. Henri Bonnefoy Male FRA SHO †9 August 1914. Killed in action during World War II. Helmut Bonnet Male GER ATH †27 September 1944. Killed in action during World War II. Hermann Bosch Male GER FTB †16 July 1916. Killed in action in World War I. Werner Böttcher Male GER ATH †10 November 1944. Missed in action since that date. Béchir Bouazzat Male FRA MOP †12 April 1944. Although a civilian in World War II he was killed by friendly fire. Jean Bouin Male FRA ATH †29 September 1914. Killed in action, by friendly fire. Heinz Brandt Male GER EQU †21 July 1944. Died during an assassination attempt on Hitler, during a meeting at Hitler's East Prussian headquarters. Hanns Braun Male GER ATH †9 October 1918. Died as a fighter pilot near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France in World War I. Karl Braunsteiner Male AUT FTB †19 April 1916. Died as a prisoner of war. Kurt Bretting Male GER SWI †30 May 1918. Killed in action during World War I. Józef Broel-Plater Male POL BOB †1941. Died in Dachau concentration camp during World War II. Franciszek Brożek Male POL SHO †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 Male GER GYM †5 August 1917. Killed in action during World War I. Kęstutis Bulota Male LTU SSK Died late 1941 or early 1942 in Sosva prison camp. Roger Bureau Male BEL ICH †April 1945. Died or was killed in a German prison camp during World War II Heinrich Burkowitz Male GER ATH †November 1918. Missing in action in November 1918 somewhere in Belgium. Wojciech Bursa Male POL SHO †1940. Killed in the Katyń Massacre. Edmond Bury Male GBR RAQ †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. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 2/17 3/20/2020 Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Athlete Gender Country Sport Notes George Butterfield Male GBR ATH †24 September 1917. Killed in action, France. Jaime Camps Male ESP ATH †3 August 1921. Killed in action during the Rif War with Morocco. José Oriol Canals Male ESP CCS †5 August 1937. Killed in action fighting with the Nationalists at the Asturias Front. Novica Čanović Male YUG ATH †2 July 1993 Killed in the Yugoslav Civil War Otello Capitani Male ITA GYM †20 September 1912. Killed in action in the Italo-Turkish War in 1912 in Misrata, Libya.