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Name | Sex | Olympic code | Sport code | Details |
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Silvano Abbà | Male | ITA | MOP | †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. |
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. |
Arthur Astley | Male | GBR | ATH | †1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
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. |
Franz Bartl | Male | AUT | HAN | †12 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II. |
Julije Bauer | Male | YUG | ATH | †15 March 1945. Killed in action in Pančevo. |
Georg Baumann | Male | RUS | WRE | Missing-in-action during World War I, but date and place not known. |
Adi Baumgarten | Male | GER | BOX | †2 October 1942. Died during the Siege of Leningrad. His friends buried him on the road to Vitebsk. |
Arthur Bäumle | Male | GER | ATH | †6 January 1942. Missing in action since 6 January 1942 in Stalingrad/Volgograd. |
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. |
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 | Killed in action in World War II in Tunisia. |
Hans Bernhardt | Male | GER | CYC | †29 November 1940. Killed in action during World War II. |
Raymond Berthet | Male | FRA | CCS | †22 April 1945. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
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 | †19 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 | †22 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. |
Kęstutis Bulota | Male | LTU | SSK | †14 June 1941. Died between 1942 and 1944. |
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. |
Edmund 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. |
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. |
Otello Capitani | Male | ITA | GYM | Killed in action in the Italo-Turkish War in 1912 in Misrata, Libya. |
Bob Carmody | Male | USA | BOX | †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. |
Oswald Carver | Male | GBR | ROW | †7 June 1915. With the 1st/2nd East Lancashire Royal Engineers, he was killed in action in Turkey in World War I and is buried in the Lancashire Landing Cemetery. |
Joseph Caullé | Male | FRA | ATH | †1 October 1915. Killed in action during World War I. |
Ugo Ceccarelli | Male | ITA | MOP | †1940. Killed the day of Milan liberation from the Nazis, near the headquarters of his club, Canottieri Milano. Some say he was killed by partisans as a known Fascist, others wrote that he was killed as a consequence of a private affair. |
Sulo Cederström | Male | FIN | SHO | †26 June 1944. Killed in action on the Karelian Isthmus during the Winter War. |
Antoni Cejzik | Male | POL | ATH | †12 September 1939. Killed in action as a soldier in the Modlin Army near Zaborów (Mazowieckie). |
Ralph Chalmers | Male | GBR | FEN | †8 May 1915. Killed in action during World War I. |
Josef Charous | Male | TCH | EQU | †5 August 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Noel Chavasse | Male | GBR | ATH | †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 | Male | CHN | FTB | †28 January 1941. Killed in action during World War II. |
John Cherry | Male | GBR | ROW | †1 February 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Lewis Clive | Male | GBR | ROW | †2 August 1938. Killed in action, fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. |
Geoffrey Coles | Male | GBR | SHO | †27 January 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Don Collinge | Male | CAN | FEN | †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 | Male | NED | WLT | †23 February 1945. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
George Cooke | Male | NZL | ROW | †23 May 1941. Killed in action during World War II. |
Manuel Corrales | Male | ESP | SHO | †October 1936. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. |
André Corvington | Male | HAI | FEN | †13 December 1918. Killed in action in World War I near Reims. |
Percy Courtman | Male | GBR | SWI | †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 | Male | CAN | ROW | †28 August 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Harry Crank | Male | GBR | DIV | †22 October 1917. Killed in action near Ypres, Belgium. |
Rudi Cranz | Male | GER | ASK | †22 June 1941. Killed in action during World War II at the beginning of the Russian Occupation at Rosaniec in Poland. |
Jacinto Ciria Cruz | Male | PHI | BAS | Killed during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, 1942-1945. |
Ferenc Csík | Male | HUN | SWI | †29 March 1945. A medical doctor, Csík was killed in an air raid while treating a wounded man. |
Frank Cuhel | Male | USA | ATH | †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. |
Cliff Cushman | Male | USA | ATH | †25 September 1966. Air pilot, his plane shot down in the Vietnam War. Technically still listed as MIA. |
Czesław Cyraniak | Male | POL | BOX | †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 | Male | POL | NCO, SKJ, CCS, ASK | †4 June 1944. Resistance fighter in World War II, died of typhus in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Abraham d'Oliveira | Male | NED | GYM | †26 March 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Georg Dascher | Male | GER | HAN | †25 November 1944. Killed during World War II. |
Robert Davies | Male | GBR | SHO | †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. |
Álvaro de Arana | Male | ESP | SAI | †July 1937. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. |
Thierry de Briey | Male | BEL | EQU | †11 April 1945. Killed in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. |
Simplicio de Castro | Male | PHI | BOX | Killed during World War II. |
Louis de Champsavin | Male | FRA | EQU | †20 December 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
José de Figueroa | Male | ESP | POL | †20 October 1920. Killed in action during the Rif War with Morocco. |
Nemesio de Guzman | Male | PHI | ATH | †1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Ernst, Jonkheer de Jonge | Male | NED | ROW | †3 September 1944. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
Georges de la Nézière | Male | FRA | ATH | †9 October 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Bertrand, Count de Lesseps | Male | FRA | FEN | †28 August 1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
Ismaël de Lesseps | Male | FRA | FEN | †30 September 1915. Killed in action during World War I. |
René, Baron de Lunden | Male | BEL | BOB | †3 April 1942. Killed in an emergency landing of his bomber in Britain. |
Jean de Mas Latrie | Male | FRA | FEN, MOP | †5 September 1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
George de Relwyskow | Male | GBR | WRE | †9 November 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Jean, Marquis de Suarez d'Aulan | Male | FRA | BOB | †8 October 1944. Pilot in World War II, died when his Dewoitine 520 was shot by a Messerschmidt. |
Felix Debax | Male | FRA | FEN | †25 August 1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
Alex Decouteau | Male | CAN | ATH | †17 October 1917. Killed in action in the Battle of Passchendale. |
Francesco Del Grosso | Male | ITA | CYC | †22 July 1938. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. |
Oszkár Demján | Male | HUN | SWI | †4 September 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Eugen Deutsch | Male | GER | WLT | †8 February 1945. Killed in action during World War II. |
Charles Devendeville | Male | FRA | SWI, WAP | †19 September 1914. Killed in action. |
Charles Devendeville | Male | FRA | SWI, WAP | †19 September 1914. Killed in action. |
Diego Díez | Male | ESP | FEN | †September 1936. Killed during the Massacre of Paracuellos del Jarama. |
Jānis Dimza | Male | LAT | ATH | †1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Joseph Dines | Male | GBR | FTB | †27 September 1918. He was killed in Pas de Calais as a second lieutenant on the Western front during World War I. |
Erminio Dones | Male | ITA | ROW | †25 April 1945. Killed in action in Africa, serving as an infantry captain. |
Foy Draper | Male | USA | ATH | †4 January 1943. Died in an air crash preparing for the Battle of Kasserine Pass. |
Jimmy Duffy | Male | CAN | ATH | †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. |
Hugh Durant | Male | GBR | MOP, SHO | †21 January 1916. With the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, he was killed in action in France in World War I and is buried in the Vermelles British Cemetery. |
Emile Duson | Male | NED | HOK | †15 March 1942. Died in a Japanese internment camp. |
Zdzisław Dziadulski | Male | POL | EQU | †1940. A prisoner in Starobielsk, he was murdered by Soviets in Kharkov in April or May 1940. |
Heywood Edwards | Male | USA | WRE | †31 October 1941. Died aboard the USS Reuben James, the first US navy ship to be sunk in the Atlantic during World War II. |
Boughera El Ouafi | Male | FRA | ATH | †18 October 1959. Killed by members of the Algerian Liberation Movement. |
Hans Eller | Male | GER | ROW | †23 January 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Eduard Ellmann | Male | EST | FTB | †16 November 1941. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
George Fairbairn | Male | GBR | ROW | †20 June 1915. Killed in action in the Somme in France during World War I. |
Linn Farish | Male | USA | RUG | †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 | Male | FRA | FTB | †4 November 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Rafael Fernández | Male | ESP | POL | †1936. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. |
Robert Feyerick | Male | BEL | FEN | †18 June 1940. Killed in action in World War II. |
Sergey Filippov | Male | RUS | FTB | †1942. Civilian casualty of the Leningrad Blockade during World War II. |
Billy Fiske | Male | USA | BOB | †17 August 1940. First American fighter pilot to be killed in World War II, fighting for Britain, in a crash landing. |
Hernando Fitz-James | Male | ESP | POL | †7 November 1936. Killed during the Massacre of Paracuellos del Jarama. |
Léon Flameng | Male | FRA | CYC | †2 January 1917. Killed in action during World War I. |
Alfred Flatow | Male | GER | GYM | †28 December 1942. Killed in Theresienstadt concentration camp. |
Gustav Flatow | Male | GER | GYM | †29 January 1945. Killed in Theresienstadt concentration camp. |
Alfred Flaxman | Male | GBR | ATH | †1 July 1916. Killed in an attack on the enemy positions at Gommecourt. |
Viktor Flessl | Male | AUT | ROW | †18 December 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Walter Flinsch | Male | GER | ROW | †3 February 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Hans Fokker | Male | NED | SAI | †2 July 1943. Internment in Burma. |
Victor Fontana | Male | ROU | BIA | †24 December 1989. Killed during the Romanian Revolution of 1989. |
Hans Freese | Male | GER | SWI | †1943. Heavily wounded at Stalingrad in 1941 and died from his wounds at a hospital in Bremen in 1943. |
Stefan Fryc | Male | POL | FTB | †9 November 1943. Murdered by the SS in the Warsaw Ghetto in a mass execution in 1943. |
Mauricio Galvao | Male | GER | HOK | †6 March 1945. Killed in action in World War II. His grave is in the war cemetary in Zagreb, Croatia. |
János Garay | Male | HUN | FEN | †3 May 1945. Killed in Mauthausen concentration camp. |
Bert Gayler | Male | GBR | CYC | †23 June 1917. Killed by rifle fire during an ambush in a valley near Kotkai Bozi Khel. |
Günther Gehmert | Male | GER | ATH | †13 June 1940. Wounded in action and died in the field hospital in Montaigu. |
Georg Gehring | Male | GER | WRE | †31 October 1943. Killed in action during World War II near Szczeczin. |
Josef Genschieder | Male | AUT | CYC | †3 April 1943. Killed in action during World War II at the Eastern Front in Russia. |
Oszkár Gerde | Male | HUN | FEN | †8 October 1944. Killed in Mauthausen concentration camp. |
Thomas Gillespie | Male | GBR | ROW | †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 | Male | GER | ROW | †15 August 1942. Killed in action 1942 (500 m away from the runway of the airport). |
Henry Goldsmith | Male | GBR | ROW | †9 May 1915. Killed in action at Fromelles. |
Lajos Gönczy | Male | HUN | ATH | †4 December 1915. Killed in action in area of Galicia and Lodomeria. |
Otoniel Gonzaga | Male | PHI | SHO | Killed during World War II. |
Jan Górny | Male | POL | BOX | †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. |
Isidore Goudeket | Male | NED | GYM | †9 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Carl Heinrich Goßler | Male | GER | ROW | †9 September 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Gustav Grachegg | Male | AUT | EQU | †13 May 1945. Reported missing in action in the Soviet Union on 13 May 1945. |
Mark Graham | Male | CAN | ATH | †4 September 2006. Killed by friendly fire. |
Félix Grimonprez | Male | FRA | HOK | †26 May 1940. With the 8th Train Squadron of Military Engineers, he was killed in action in World War II. |
Mārtiņš Grundmanis | Male | LAT | BAS | †1945. Died in prisoner-of-war camp in Rīga. |
Frederick Habberfield | Male | GBR | CYC | †12 December 1943. Killed by German torpedo attack on his submarine. |
Emil Hagelberg | Male | FIN | MOP | †24 September 1913. Killed in action during World War I. |
David Haig-Thomas | Male | GBR | ROW | †6 June 1944. Killed in action in Normandy on early hours of D Day. |
Saul Hallap | Male | EST | WLT | †18 July 1941. Executed by the Soviets when the front reached Põltsamaa. |
Juho Halme | Male | FIN | ATH | †1 February 1918. Killed in action in Finnish Civil War. |
Győző Halmos | Male | HUN | GYM | †1945. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
Wyndham Halswelle | Male | GBR | ATH | †31 March 1915. Killed by a sniper's bullet in France. |
Helmut Hamann | Male | GER | ATH | †22 June 1941. Killed in action during World War II. |
Hannes Hansen | Male | GER | HAN | †28 June 1944. Missing in action since 1944 when he did not return from an enemy flight. |
Rudi Harbig | Male | GER | ATH | †5 March 1944. Sent to the Eastern Front, Harbig died in the Ukraine, near Novo Archangelsk. |
Walter Hasenfus | Male | USA | CAN | †8 December 1944. Killed in action during World War II, while serving with the 307th Infantry, 77th Division in the South Pacific, most likely in the Philippines. |
Josef Hasenöhrl | Male | AUT | ROW | †13 March 1945. Killed in action during World War II. |
Franz Haslberger | Male | GER | SKJ | †17 September 1939. Killed in action at the beginning of World War II, somewhere in the Ukraine. |
Kurt Hasse | Male | GER | EQU | †9 January 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
George Hawkins | Male | GBR | ATH | †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 | Male | GBR | SHO | †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 | Male | AUS, ANZ | SWI | †29 August 1918. Killed in action in World War I. |
Hermann Heibel | Male | GER | SWI | †19 August 1941. Heavily wounded at the Eastern Front and died in a military hospital at Valovo in the Soviet Union. |
Albert Heijnneman | Male | NED | ATH | †20 February 1944. Tortured to death in the Scheveningen prison as a member of the Dutch Underground. |
Oskar Hekš | Male | TCH | ATH | †8 March 1944. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Fritz Hendrix | Male | GER | ATH | †30 August 1941. Killed in action on the Eastern Front, near Leningrad. |
Max Herrmann | Male | GER | ATH | †29 January 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Otto Herschmann | Male | AUT | FEN, SWI | †17 June 1942. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Felix Hess | Male | NED | ART | †9 April 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Eduard Hiiop | Male | EST | FSK | †24 August 1941. Executed by Soviets. |
Robert Hilliard | Male | IRL | BOX | †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 | Male | GER | FTB | †8 May 1945. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Tommy Hitchcock | Male | USA | POL | †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. |
Gunnar Höckert | Male | FIN | ATH | †11 February 1940. Fought in the Winter War as a volunteer, and was killed on the Karelian Isthmus the day before his 30th birthday. |
Heiner Hoffmann | Male | GER | CYC | †27 April 1945. Died between 1940 and 1945. |
Max Hofmeister | Male | AUT | FTB | Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Thomas Homewood | Male | GBR | TOW | †1 February 1945. Killed in a V2 rocket attack on London. |
Xaver Hörmann | Male | GER | CAN | †23 February 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Gösta Horn | Male | SWE | DIV | †10 December 1943. Died in the crash of a military plane off the northern tip of Öland. |
Václav Hošek | Male | TCH | ATH | †June 1943. Arrested by the Gestapo and killed while trying to escape from a POW camp. |
Robert Huber | Male | GER | ROW | †18 August 1942. Missing in action since 1 July 1942 in Russia. |
George Hutson | Male | GBR | ATH | †14 September 1914. Killed in action only five weeks after the outbreak of World War I. |
Arvīds Immermanis | Male | LAT | CYC | †July 1947. Died in a Soviet prison camp. |
Milutin Ivković | Male | YUG | FTB | †25 May 1943. Shot to death in Jajinci Concentration Camp. |
Mozes Jacobs | Male | NED | GYM | †9 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Adolf Jäger | Male | GER | FTB | †21 November 1944. Died in a bombing raid. |
Kalle Jalkanen | Male | FIN | CCS | †5 September 1941. Killed when he stepped on a mine while on an intelligence gathering mission in Lempaala, Ingeria. |
Edmund Jankowski | Male | POL | ROW | †1 November 1939. Arrested by the Gestapo and shot near Fordon (now this is the district of Bydgoszcz). |
Akilles Järvinen | Male | FIN | ATH | †7 March 1943. Died when his military aircraft crashed during a test flight. |
Kalle Järvinen | Male | FIN | ATH | †25 August 1941. Killed in action on the Karelian Isthmus during the Winter War. |
Józef Jaworski | Male | POL | ATH | †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. |
Albert Jenicot | Male | FRA | FTB | †22 February 1916. An under-lieutenant with the 165th Regiment D Infantry, he was killed in action in World War I. |
Walter Jesinghaus | Male | GER | GYM | †1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
Birger Johansson | Male | FIN | CAN | †3 January 1940. Killed in action at the Battle of Summa. |
Jānis Jordāns | Male | LAT | ATH | †25 February 1944. Died in a Soviet prison camp. |
Emil Juracka | Male | AUT | HAN | †21 February 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Enrique Jurado | Male | PHI | WRE | Killed during World War II. |
Harald Kaarman | Male | EST | FTB | †19 August 1942. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Endre Kabos | Male | HUN | FEN | †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. |
Eddy Kahn | Male | NED | EQU | †19 August 1944. Worked as an officer with the American invasion forces in Normandy when he was killed in action in France. |
Kalle Kainuvaara | Male | FIN | DIV, MOP | †21 October 1943. Wounded and later died in a war hospital. |
Roman Kantor | Male | POL | FEN | †1943. Killed in Maidanek concentration camp. |
Ted Kara | Male | USA | BOX | †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 | Male | POL | SHO | †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 | Male | GER | ROW | †1 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II near Mikhaylova in the Soviet Union. |
Joachim Karsch | Male | GER | ART | †1945. Committed suicide after Russian occupation of Germany, rather than allowing himself to be deported to a Russian POW camp. |
Karl Kaschka | Male | AUT | FEN | †4 December 1941. Killed in action in World War II near Tobruk. |
Elias Katz | Male | FIN | ATH | †26 December 1947. Died in Palestine in 1947. |
Tatsugo Kawaishi | Male | JPN | SWI | †17 March 1945. Killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima. |
Zdzisław Kawecki | Male | POL | EQU | †April 1940. A prisoner in the Soviet camp for Polish officers in Kozielsk, he was murdered in Katyń. |
Ernest Keeley | Male | RSA | SHO | †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 | Male | GBR | ROW | †13 November 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Paul Kenna | Male | GBR | EQU | †30 August 1915. Killed in action at the Battle of Gallipoli. |
Robert Keres | Male | EST | BAS | †26 October 1946. Died from wounds sustained during World War II. |
Reinhold Kesküll | Male | EST | ATH | †1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Lauri Kettunen | Male | FIN | MOP, FEN | †15 August 1941. Killed in action near Kiestinki during the Continuation War. |
Ferdinand Kiefler | Male | AUT | HAN | †13 January 1945. Killed in action during World War II. |
Alfred Kienzle | Male | GER | WAP | †4 September 1940. Killed in action during World War II. |
Jaan Kikkas | Male | EST | WLT | †9 March 1944. Killed in Tallinn during a bombing raid by the Soviets. |
Desmond Kingsford | Male | GBR | ROW | †10 August 1944. Killed in action in Normandy. |
Alister Kirby | Male | GBR | ROW | †29 March 1917. Served as a captain in the Rifle Brigade and died from illness in 1917. |
Frederick Kitching | Male | GBR | ATH | †1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
Aaro Kiviperä | Male | FIN | MOP | †11 July 1944. Killed in air crash over the Karelian Isthmus. |
Kārlis Kļava | Male | LAT | SHO | †1941. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Josef Klein | Male | TCH | ATH | †1941. Member of the Czech resistance. Died shortly after release from prison - possibly from effects of torture. |
Józef Klukowski | Male | POL | ART | †29 April 1944. Killed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. |
Arthur Knautz | Male | GER | HAN | †4 May 1943. Reported missing in action on 4 May 1943, west of Byelgorod, URS. |
František Kobzík | Male | TCH | ROW | †7 May 1944. Committed suicide to avoid capture during World War II. |
Erland Koch | Male | GER | SHO | †29 April 1945. Killed in action during the last days of World War II, one day before Adolf Hitler's suicide. |
Karl Koch | Male | GER | CYC | †28 June 1944. Died in World War II (between 1939-1945). |
Yasuhiko Kojima | Male | JPN | SWI | Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
August Kop | Male | NED | HOK | †30 April 1945. Died while constructing the Pekanburu railroad on Sumatra. |
Dora Köring | Female | GER | TEN | †13 February 1945. Died in the infamous bombing of Dresden. |
Elmar Korko | Male | EST | ROW | †10 July 1941. Executed by Soviet soldiers when the front reached Tartu. |
Heinz Körvers | Male | GER | HAN | †29 December 1942. Listed as missing in action near Stalingrad. |
Lauri Koskela | Male | FIN | WRE | †3 August 1944. Killed in action at Battle of Äyräpää-Vuosalmi in Continuation War between Finland and Soviet Union. |
Karl Kotratschek | Male | AUT | ATH | †4 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II. |
Aleksander Kowalski | Male | POL | ICH | †3 April 1940. A prisoner in the Soviet camp for Polish officers in Kozielsk. He was murdered in Katyń. |
Marian Kozłowski | Male | POL | CAN | †1943. Died during bombardment, with precise date and place unknown. |
Hans-Helmuth Krause | Male | GER | ATH | †26 February 1944. Killed in action during World War II as a batallion leader. |
Paul Krauß | Male | GER | SKJ | †20 February 1942. Killed in action during World War II near Borvik in the Soviet Union. |
Leonhard Kukk | Male | EST | WLT | †1944. A civilian who was killed by Soviet troops. |
Ernst Künz | Male | AUT | FTB | †21 August 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Stanisław Kuryłłowicz | Male | POL | ROW | †2 February 1945. Killed in action in Poznań. |
Albert Kusnets | Male | EST | WRE | †1942. Starved to death in a Soviet prison camp. |
Janusz Kusociński | Male | POL | ATH | †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 | Male | EST | ATH | †27 April 1942. Starved to death in a Soviet prison camp. |
Nikolay Kynin | Male | RUS | FTB | †1916. Killed during World War I. |
Harvey Lacelle | Male | CAN | BOX | †28 June 1942. Killed during a bombing raid over Berlin. |
Ivan Laing | Male | GBR | HOK | †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 | Male | NED | ATH | †27 May 1945. Died while constructing the Pekanburu railroad on Sumatra. |
John Lander | Male | GBR | ROW | †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 | Male | AUT | CAN | †18 January 1943. Died during the Siege of Leningrad. |
Octave Lapize | Male | FRA | CYC | †14 July 1917. Killed when his plane was shot down near Verdun. |
Martti Lappalainen | Male | FIN | CCS, MSP | †6 October 1941. Killed in action in the Continuation War on the banks of Svir River. |
Karl Leban | Male | AUT | SSK, MOP | †28 July 1941. Killed in action in World War II in the Ukraine. |
Henry Leeke | Male | GBR | ATH | †29 May 1915. Killed in action on the eve of his battalion's departure for Gallipoli. |
Erich Lehmann | Male | GER | ATH | †9 July 1918. Listed as missing in action in World War I. |
Julien Lehouck | Male | BEL | ATH | †25 February 1944. Member of the Belgian resistance, arrested and hung in Concentration Camp Breendonk. |
Wilhelm Leichum | Male | GER | ATH | †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 | Male | GER | BOX | †1 February 1945. Missing in action in World War II. |
Ludwig Leinberger | Male | GER | FTB | †3 March 1943. Died in a military hospital in 1943 after surgery for appendicitis. |
Franz Lemnitz | Male | GER | CYC | †1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Hermann Lemp | Male | GER | MOP | †9 November 1943. Listed as missing in action near Witebsk, now in Belarus. |
Feliks Leparsky | Male | RUS | FEN | †10 January 1917. Killed in action in World War I. |
Herbert Leupold | Male | GER | CCS | †22 December 1942. Died from his war wounds in a military hospital near Navaginskaya in the Soviet Union. |
David Lindsay | Male | NZL | SWI | †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 | Male | GER | EQU | †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. |
Eugeniusz Lokajski | Male | POL | ATH | †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 | Male | GER | ATH | †14 July 1943. Wounded in action during the Allied invasion of Sicily, died in an English field hospital. |
Leszek Lubicz-Nycz | Male | POL | FEN | †22 September 1939. He was killed in action in Buraków near Warsaw during the September Campaign. |
Jaakko Luoma | Male | FIN | ATH | †12 March 1940. Killed in action near Uomaalla (Impilahti) on the Karelian Isthmus. |
Georges Lutz | Male | FRA | CYC | †31 January 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Willy Lützow | Male | GER | SWI | †1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
William Lyshon | Male | USA | WRE | †13 October 1918. Killed in the final days of World War I. |
Jeffrey MacDougall | Male | GBR | MOP | †December 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Henry Macintosh | Male | GBR | ATH | †26 July 1918. Died from wounds sustained in the Second Battle of the Somme. |
Duncan Mackinnon | Male | GBR | ROW | †9 October 1917. Killed in action at Ypres in the Battle of Passchendaele. |
Gilchrist Maclagan | Male | GBR | ROW | †25 April 1915. Killed in action in Pilckem Ridge, at the Second Battle of Ypres. |
Gustav Mader | Male | AUT | BOB | †18 April 1945. Killed in action in World II near Rijeka. |
Hans Maier | Male | GER | ROW | †6 March 1943. Killed in action at the North African Front near Mareth, Tunisia. |
Jarl Malmgren | Male | FIN | FTB | †5 June 1942. Killed in action near Pogost, on the Karelian Isthmus. |
Antonios Mangos | Male | GRE | ATH | Died during the Greco-Italian War. |
Clayton Mansfield | Male | USA | MOP | †9 January 1945. Commanding officer of the 92nd Recon group, he was killed in action in the European Theatre of Operations (ETO). |
Charles Marion | Male | FRA | EQU | †16 November 1944. Kidnapped and killed by guerillas. |
François Marits | Male | NED | SHO | †2 April 1945. Died in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. |
Hans Marr | Male | GER | SKJ | †20 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II, near Minsk, Belarus, with the rank of Unteroffizier. |
Nemesio Martínez | Male | ESP | EQU | †1936. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. |
Martti Marttelin | Male | FIN | ATH | †1 March 1940. Killed in action at the Battle of Taipale near what is now the Burnaya River. |
Antoni Maszewski | Male | POL | ATH | †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 | Male | JPN | FTB | †1942. Killed in action at Guadalcanal. |
Aleksander Małecki | Male | POL | FEN | †September 1939. Fought in the September Campaign, and was probably killed during an attempt to escape to Hungary after 17 September 1939. |
Alphonse Meignant | Male | FRA | ROW | †4 November 1914. Killed at First Battle of Ypres during World War 1. |
Johan Meimer | Male | EST | ATH | †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 | Male | LAT | BAS | †14 July 1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Elias Melkman | Male | NED | GYM | †3 January 1942. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Willi Menne | Male | GER | ROW | †27 March 1945. Killed in action during World War II somewhere in Slovakia. |
Toni Merkens | Male | GER | CYC | †20 June 1944. Killed 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 Bad Wildbad. |
Robert Merz | Male | AUT | FTB | †30 August 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Fritz Messner | Male | GER | HOK | †7 November 1945. Killed in action during World War II. |
Georg Mickler | Male | GER | ATH | †14 June 1915. Killed in action during World War I somewhere in Poland. |
Konrad Miersch | Male | GER | MOP | †2 March 1942. Killed in action at the Eastern Front with the rank of SS Major. |
Jovan Mikić | Male | YUG | ATH | †10 November 1944 (or 11 October 1944). Killed during World War II. |
Josef Miner | Male | GER | BOX | †1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Tsutomuko Mitsudome | Male | JPN | ROW | Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Aleksander Mitt | Male | EST | SSK | †18 April 1942. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Nicolaas Moerloos | Male | BEL | GYM, WLT | †5 September 1944. Killed as a member of the Belgian resistance during an encounter with German forces, shortly before liberation. |
Abraham Mok | Male | NED | GYM | †29 February 1944. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Percival Molson | Male | CAN | ATH | †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 | Male | NED | SAI | †15 November 1941. Killed while flying back to England. |
Alfred Motté | Male | FRA | ATH | †31 October 1918. Killed in action in World War I. |
István Mudin | Male | HUN | ATH | †22 July 1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
Juan Muguerza | Male | ESP | ATH | †5 May 1937. Died in a bombing accident. |
Eugen Mühlberger | Male | GER | WLT | †1 August 1944. Missing in action in Russia. |
Michael Murach | Male | GER | BOX | †1 August 1941. Died during the Siege of Leningrad. |
Jack Murdoch | Male | CAN | ROW | †10 October 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Saburo Nagao | Male | JPN | ATH | Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Eiichi Nakamura | Male | JPN | HOK | †27 May 1945. Killed in action during World War II. |
Edward Nash | Male | GBR | EQU | †21 February 1915. Killed in action during World War I. |
Helmuth Naudé | Male | GER | MOP | †3 February 1943. Killed in action at the Eastern Front with the rank of Oberst. |
Grigory Nikitin | Male | RUS | FTB | †1917. Killed during World War I. |
Takeichi, Baron Nishi | Male | JPN | EQU | †22 March 1945. Possibly committed suicide during the Battle of Iwo Jima. |
Jules Noël | Male | FRA | ATH | †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 | Male | POL | ATH | †15 February 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Lea Nordheim | Female | NED | GYM | †2 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Mauri Nyberg-Noroma | Male | FIN | GYM | †23 December 1939. Killed in action on the Karelian Isthmus during the Soviet-Finnish Winter War. |
Amador Obordo | Male | PHI | BAS | Killed during World War II. |
Masayoshi Ochiai | Male | JPN | ATH | Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Sueo Oe | Male | JPN | ATH | †24 December 1941. Killed in action during World War II. |
Simon Okker | Male | NED | FEN | †6 March 1944. Killed in Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. |
Harcourt Ommundsen | Male | GBR | SHO | †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 | Male | EST | FTB | †18 December 1941. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Charley Paddock | Male | USA | ATH | †21 July 1943. Died in a plane crash near Sitka, Alaska. |
Alan Patterson | Male | GBR | ATH | †14 March 1916. Commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery, he was killed in action only two days after his 30th birthday. |
František Pecháček | Male | TCH | GYM | †3 February 1944. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
Árpád Pédery | Male | HUN | GYM | †21 October 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Fritz Pellkofer | Male | GER | CCS | †23 January 1943. During World War II, he was declared missing in action in Russia. |
Emil Perška | Male | YUG | FTB | †May 1945. Executed during World War II. |
Jacques Person | Male | GER | ATH | †15 July 1915. From Alsace, killed in action in Flanders as a member of the "7. Thüringische Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 96". |
Attila Petschauer | Male | HUN | FEN | †20 January 1943. Killed in Dawidowka concentration camp. |
Arvo Peussa | Male | FIN | ATH | †19 July 1941. Killed in action near Salmi on the Karelian Isthmus, during the Continuation War. |
William Philo | Male | GBR | BOX | †7 July 1916. Killed in World War I during the battle of the Somme in France. |
Étienne Piquiral | Male | FRA | RUG | †13 March 1945. Died of illness in a POW camp during World War II. |
Hermann Plaskuda | Male | GER | FEN | †21 March 1918. Killed in action in World War II. His grave is in the war cemetary in St. Quentin, France. |
Werner Plath | Male | GER | SWI | †1945. Was executed by the SS in 1945. No further details known. |
Otto Pohla | Male | EST | WRE | †July 1941. Drowned when German submarines drowned the prison ship on which he was travelling. |
Ans Polak | Female | NED | GYM | †23 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Léon Ponscarme | Male | FRA | CYC | †24 November 1916. Killed in action in World War I in Verdun. |
Janez Porenta | Male | YUG | GYM | †June 1942. Member of the Yugoslav resistance. Executed by Italian forces. |
Bobby Powell | Male | CAN | TEN | Lieutenant in the 48th Canadian Infantry Battalion during World War I. Killed in action while fighting in France. Date and place unknown. |
Kenneth Powell | Male | GBR | ATH, TEN | †18 February 1915. Killed in action while serving as a private in the HAC. |
Siegfried Powolny | Male | AUT | HAN | †19 July 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Reggie Pridmore | Male | GBR | HOK | †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. |
Manuel Puig | Male | CUB | ROW | †20 April 1961. Executed by the Cuban government for his part in helping the US led Bay of Pigs landings. |
Siegfried Purner | Male | AUT | HAN | †3 February 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Joseph Racine | Male | FRA | CYC | †28 October 1914. With the 113th Regiment Infantry, he was killed in action in World War I. |
Thomas Raddall | Male | GBR | SHO | †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 | Male | FRA | POL | †5 May 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Richard Rau | Male | GER | ATH | †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 | Male | ITA | GYM | Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, date unknown. |
Stasys Razma | Male | LTU | FTB | †1941. Killed in action during World War II. |
Willi Reinfrank | Male | GER | WLT | †1 January 1943. Listed as missing in action at the Battle of Stalingrad. |
Toivo Reingoldt | Male | FIN | SWI | †28 September 1941. Killed in action after an air crash in Eastern Karelia. |
Wilhelm Rietschel | Male | GER | ART | †18 December 1941. Killed in action in Ropscha, Russia during World War I. |
Josef Ritz | Male | AUT | FEN | †31 July 1943. Killed in action in World War II near Kharkiv. |
John Robinson | Male | GBR | HOK | †23 August 1916. Commissioned into the North Staffordshire Regiment, he was soon promoted to captain but died from injuries received in the Mesopotamian campaign. |
Patrick Roche | Male | GBR | ATH | †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 | Male | EST | SWI | †1943. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Egon Roolaid | Male | EST | SWI | †1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Evžen Rošický | Male | TCH | ATH | †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. |
Albert Rowland | Male | ANZ | ATH | †23 July 1918. Killed in action during the Second Battle of The Marne. |
Piet Ruimers | Male | NED | ATH | †6 April 1945. Executed by German soldiers on the beach of the Isle of Texel. |
Alfrēds Ruks | Male | RUS, LAT | ATH | †30 November 1941. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Heinrich Sack | Male | GER | CAN | †13 September 1941. Buried in a military cemetary in Kiev. |
Richard Sahla | Male | GER | EQU | †1942. Killed in action in World War II. |
Kenkichi Saito | Male | JPN | SWI | Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Maurice Salomez | Male | FRA | ATH | †7 August 1916. Killed in action in World War I. |
Paolo Salvi | Male | ITA | GYM | Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, date unknown. |
Ronald Sanderson | Male | GBR | ROW | †17 April 1918. Killed in action near Ypres. |
Felix Scheder-Bieschin | Male | GER | SAI | †2 September 1940. Died on a ship which was hit by a torpedo. |
Hans Scheele | Male | GER | ATH | †23 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II at the Eastern Front. |
Adolf Scheffknecht | Male | AUT | GYM | †11 September 1941. Killed in action in World War II. His grave is on the war cemetery in Petschenga, Russia. |
Heinz Schlauch | Male | GER | SWI | †21 February 1945. Killed in action during World War II. |
Alfred Schmalzer | Male | AUT | HAN | †21 January 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Heinrich Schneidereit | Male | GER | TOW, WLT | †30 September 1915. Killed in action as an artillery officer in France during World War I. |
Richard Schoemaker | Male | NED | FEN | †3 May 1942. Killed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. |
Hans Schönrath | Male | GER | BOX | †10 February 1945. Drowned when hospital ship "SS General von Steuben" sunk by a Soviet submarine. |
Koos Schouwenaar | Male | NED | ROW | †22 June 1941. Killed while flying back to England. |
Arthur Tell Schwab | Male | SUI | ATH | †27 February 1945. Died in an air raid bombing. |
Ludwig Schweickert | Male | GER | WRE | †11 July 1943. Killed in action defending the town of Orjol from recapture by the Soviet Army. |
Karl Schwitalle | Male | GER | WLT | †7 February 1945. Killed in action in World War II. |
Werner Seelenbinder | Male | GER | WRE | †24 October 1944. Killed by beheading in Brandenburg Prison after years in concentration camps for leading resistance movements against the Nazis. |
Katsumi Shibata | Male | JPN | HOK | Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Erich Siebert | Male | GER | WRE | †1947. Died during captivity post-World War II. |
Evald Sikk | Male | EST | WRE | †8 August 1945. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Otto Silber | Male | EST | FTB | †23 December 1940. Executed by the Soviets. |
Farid Simaika | Male | EGY | DIV | †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 | Male | GBR | ATH | †23 April 1944. Career Air Force officer, he was killed in a flying accident in World War II. |
André Six | Male | FRA | SWI | †1914. Killed in action. |
André Six | Male | FRA | SWI | †1914. Killed in action. |
Pierre Six | Male | FRA | FTB | †7 July 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Jonas Slier | Male | NED | GYM | †5 November 1942. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Michel Soalhat | Male | FRA | ATH | †25 September 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Tadeusz Sokołowski | Male | POL | EQU | †6 February 1943. Murdered by the Gestapo in Minsk (Belarus). |
Josip Šolc | Male | YUG | FTB | †May 1945. Ustaše member, executed by the Partisans. |
Robert Somers-Smith | Male | GBR | ROW | †1 July 1916. Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. |
Werner Spannagel | Male | GER | BOX | †23 December 1943. Sent to the Eastern Front, his death was reported on 23 December 1943. |
Sonny Spencer | Male | GBR | ATH | †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 | Male | POL | FTB | †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 | Male | POL | FTB | †16 April 1940. Executed in Lwow. |
Tomasz Stankiewicz | Male | POL | CYC | †21 June 1940. Arrested by the Germans, tortured and shot in a mass execution in Palmiry, near Warsaw as part of Operation AB-Aktion. |
Hugo Strauß | Male | GER | ROW | †1 November 1941. Killed in action during World War II near Goldayeva in the Soviet Union. |
Ludwig Stubbendorf | Male | GER | EQU | †17 August 1941. Stubbendorf and his Olympic horse, Nurmi, fought with the First Cavalry Brigade which invaded Poland as an independent unit under Third Army. Both Stubbendorf and Nurmi died during the invasion. |
Karl Sudrich | Male | AUT | FEN | †18 September 1944. Died in a war hospital in Hungary from injuries sustained in World War II. |
Teodors Sukatnieks | Male | LAT | ATH | Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Gustav Sule | Male | EST | ATH | †3 April 1942. Starved to death in a Soviet prison camp. |
Fusashige Suzuki | Male | JPN | ATH | †3 June 1945. Died in the South China Sea. |
Monta Suzuki | Male | JPN | ATH | †November 1939. Killed in action during World War II. |
Hildegarde Švarce | Female | LAT | FSK | †4 December 1944. Died in the bombardment of Heilbronn. |
Stanisław Świętochowski | Male | POL | ATH | †25 December 1940. Shot in Moscow on 11 November 1940 by the Soviets NKVD. He had earlier been a prisoner in Kozielsk. |
Józef Szajba | Male | POL | SAI | †1945. He was murdered by the Nazis in prison in Potulice (near Bydgoszcz) 1945, but further details are not known. |
Jenő Szántay | Male | HUN | FEN | †11 December 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
András Székely | Male | HUN | SWI | †January 1943. Killed in concentration camp. |
Henryk Szlązak | Male | POL | WRE | †30 September 1944. Killed by an artillery shell during the Warsaw Uprising. |
Kazimierz Szosland | Male | POL | EQU | †20 April 1944. He fought in wars with Ukraine and Soviet Russia, and was killed in the forests of Grodziskiem Mazowiecki. |
Ilja Szrajbman | Male | POL | SWI | †1943. Killed in the Warsaw Ghetto. |
Georges Tainturier | Male | FRA | FEN | †7 December 1944. Method the Nazis use to execute him was decapitation with an ax. |
Teizo Takeuchi | Male | JPN | FTB | †12 April 1946. Died in a detention camp in Siberia. |
Harald Tammer | Male | EST | ATH, WLT | †6 June 1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp. |
Mutsuo Taniguchi | Male | JPN | ATH | Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Hugh Thompson | Male | CAN | ATH | †1942. Joined the Royal Air Force and was killed in an airplane crash in World War II. |
John Thornton | Male | GBR | ATH | †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 | Male | GER | ROW | †28 July 1917. Killed in action during World War I. |
Ezedin Tlish | Male | LBA | TKW | Killed during the 2011 Libyan uprising. |
Martti Tolamo | Male | FIN | ATH | †14 March 1940. Wounded in died five days later in war hospital. |
Dragutin Tomašević | Male | SRB | ATH | †1915. Killed in action during World War I in Serbia |
Freddie Tomlins | Male | GBR | FSK | †20 June 1943. Killed as a RAF crew-member in fight against a German submarine in/over the British Channel. |
Adalbert Toots | Male | EST | WRE | †1948. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Ernest Toussaint | Male | LUX | BOX | †14 November 1942. Shot in German Concentration camp Hinzert. |
Kostas Tsiklitiras | Male | GRE | ATH | †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. |
John Turnbull | Male | USA | HOK | †18 October 1944. His bomber was shot down over Belgium. |
Masaren Uchida | Male | JPN | DIV, SWI | †1945. Killed in action during World War II. |
Tokutaro Ukon | Male | JPN | FTB | †1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Martti Uosikkinen | Male | FIN | GYM | †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 | Male | GER | FTB | †23 May 1943. Killed in action in World War II. Died from his wounds at the field hospital at Aleksino in Russia. |
Stanisław Urban | Male | POL | ROW | †April 1940. A prisoner in Kozielsk, he was shot and killed in the Katyń Massacre. |
Eugen Uuemaa | Male | EST | ATH | †25 July 1941. Executed by the Soviets in Tallinn before the Germans invaded Estonia. |
Aleksey Uversky | Male | RUS | FTB | †1942. Civilian casualty of the Leningrad Blockade during World War II. |
Ladislav Vácha | Male | TCH | GYM | †28 June 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Antal Vágó | Male | HUN | FTB | †1944. Killed 1944 in concentration camp per Volker Kluge. |
Hugo Väli | Male | EST | FTB | †1943. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Tjapko van Bergen | Male | NED | ROW | †2 February 1944. Served as a Rottenführer in the German SS and was killed on the Eastern Front in Russia. |
Marcel Van Crombrugghe | Male | BEL | ROW | †23 September 1940. Killed in action during World War II. |
Ru van der Haar | Male | NED | HOK | †15 May 1943. Died in a Japanese internment camp. |
Johannes van der Vegte | Male | NED | ROW | †15 March 1945. Died in a Japanese internment camp. |
Gerardus van der Wel | Male | NED | ATH | †31 May 1945. Killed in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. |
Alexander, Jonkheer van Geen | Male | NED | MOP | †27 February 1942. Artillery officer on the cruiser HNMS De Ruijter and went down with his ship during the Battle of the Java Sea. |
Lion van Minden | Male | NED | FEN | †6 September 1944. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Jacob van Moppes | Male | NED | WRE | †26 March 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Martial Van Schelle | Male | BEL | SWI, BOB | †15 March 1943. Executed in transit camp Breendonk. |
Hans van Walsem | Male | NED | ROW | †2 January 1943. Killed in Neuengamme concentration camp. |
Nikolai Vekšin | Male | EST | SAI | †15 January 1951. Died in a Soviet prison camp. |
Pierre Versteegh | Male | NED | EQU | †3 May 1942. Killed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. |
Heino Veskila | Male | EST | BAS | †July 1941. Died in June or July 1941 as a prisoner-of-war. |
Justin Vialaret | Male | FRA | FTB | †30 September 1916. Killed in action in World War I. |
Charles Vigurs | Male | GBR | GYM | †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 | Male | FRA | FTB | †26 December 1944. Executed as a collaborator. |
Lorenzo Vitria | Male | ESP | BOX | †18 June 1941. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
Hasso von Bismarck | Male | GER | BOB | †22 June 1941. Killed in action in World War II in Lithuania. |
Hermann von Bönninghausen | Male | GER | ATH | †26 January 1919. Died from wounds from being shot in the face in World War I. |
Bernhard von Gaza | Male | GER | ROW | †25 September 1917. Killed in action during World War I in Belgium. |
Béla von Las-Torres | Male | HUN | SWI | †13 October 1915. Killed in action in Italy during World War I. |
Eduard von Lütcken | Male | GER | EQU | †15 September 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Friedrich Karl, Prince von Preußen | Male | GER | EQU | †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. |
Günther von Scheven | Male | GER | ART | †21 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Konrad von Wangenheim | Male | GER | EQU | †28 January 1953. Died in a prisoner-of-war camp, possibly murdered. |
Sadao Wakizaka | Male | JPN | HOK | Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Edmond Wallace | Male | FRA | FEN | †18 August 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Tapio Wartiovaara | Male | FIN | SHO | †20 February 1940. Wounded at Battle of Taipale and died the next day in Peace Military Hospital. |
Birger Wasenius | Male | FIN | SSK | †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 | Male | NOR | FTB | †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. |
Arthur Wear | Male | USA | TEN | †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 | Male | GBR | ATH | †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 | Male | GER | ATH | †16 February 1945. Killed in action during World War II as a member of the SS near Saargemuend in Germany. |
Rémi Weil | Male | FRA | DIV, SWI | †20 November 1943. Died in Auschwitz concentration camp. |
Ernst Weiß | Male | GER | ART | †15 June 1940. Committed suicide after the Germans occupied Paris, rather than allowing himself to be deported to a concentration camp. |
Walter Werginz | Male | AUT | FTB | †21 March 1944. Killed in action in the Ukraine. |
Paul Wevers | Male | GER | CAN | †4 March 1941. Died near Braunschweig in World War II when his plane crashed into the ground. |
Miguel White | Male | PHI | ATH | †30 August 1942. Killed in action in the Philippines. |
Israel Wijnschenk | Male | NED | GYM | †31 January 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Arthur Wilde | Male | GBR | SHO | †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 | Male | ANZ | TEN | †9 May 1915. Joined the British army and was leading an armoured car unit when he was killed at Aubers Ridge during the Battle of Neuve-Chapelle. |
Victor Willems | Male | BEL | FEN | †1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
Edward Williams | Male | GBR | ROW | †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. |
Harold Wilson | Male | GBR | ATH | †1916. Killed in action in World War I. |
Herbert Wilson | Male | GBR | POL | †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 | Male | GER | GYM | †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 | Male | GBR | POL | †16 April 1941. Killed in an air raid. |
Hans Woellke | Male | GER | ATH | †22 March 1943. Killed in action during World War II. |
Heinz Wöllner | Male | GER | ATH | †13 September 1943. Killed in action during World War II at the Western Front. |
Matthias Wörndle | Male | GER | CCS | †15 October 1942. Killed in action during World War II near Kansodarsk in the Soviet Union. |
Roman Wörndle | Male | GER | ASK | †26 September 1944. Killed in action during World War II near Geilenkirchen in Germany. |
Jan Wrzosek | Male | POL | SHO | †3 September 1939. Infantry commander in the Polish Army. Killed in action during the September Campaign in Złoty Potok (Śląskie). |
Mikhail Yakovlev | Male | RUS | FTB | †1942. Civilian casualty of the Leningrad Blockade during World War II. |
Teófilo Yldefonso | Male | PHI | SWI | †19 June 1942. Killed in concentration camp Capas, following the Bataan Death March. |
Richard Yorke | Male | GBR | ATH | †22 December 1914. Killed in action in World War I while serving as a sergeant in the London Scottish. |
Kiichi Yoshida | Male | JPN | SWI | Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Miguel Zabalza | Male | ESP | FEN | †23 September 1925. Killed in action during the Rif War with Morocco. |
Janusz Zalewski | Male | POL | SAI | †August 1944. Member of the Polish resistance. Injured during the 1944 Warsaw Rising, he was murdered along with fellow hospital patients and medical staff during Nazi reprisals. |
Kazimierz Zebrowski | Male | POL | ICH | There are suspicions, that he was taken out to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he died – details are not known. |
Hans Zehetner | Male | AUT | HAN | †29 December 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Stanisław Ziffer | Male | POL | ATH | Probably killed in action in September Campaign but the details are not known. |
Branko Ziherl | Male | YUG | DIV | †August 1942. Killed in Kočevski Rog. |
Ron Zinn | Male | USA | ATH | †6 July 1965. Although assumed deceased, technically still listed as MIA (missing in action) in Vietnam. |
Feliks Żuber | Male | POL | ATH | †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 | Male | HUN | FEN | †24 October 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Jerzy Łucki | Male | POL | BOB | †18 April 1939. Killed in action during the September Campaign in Kuty (now on Ukraine). |
Others
[edit]- Eugen Schnalek, in WWII