Roger Eugene Bureau (1 February 1905 – c. 11 April 1945) was a Belgian speed skater and ice hockey player. As a speed skater he finished seventh at the 1926 European Championships.[1] As a hockey player he won a silver medal at the Ice Hockey European Championship 1927,[2] and finished fifth and 13th at the 1928 and 1936 Winter Olympics, respectively.[2] During World War II Bureau served with the Allied forces. On 21 April 1944 he was arrested near the French-Spanish border, placed in a German prison camp, and executed in April 1945.[3][4]
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| Born | 1 February 1905 Antwerp, Belgium | |||||||||||
| Died | c. 11 April 1945 (aged 40) Hanover, Nazi Germany | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Ice hockey | |||||||||||
Medal record
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References
edit- ^ a b Roger Bureau. speedskatingstats.com
- ^ a b c Tomasz Malolepszy (2013). European Ice Hockey Championship Results: Since 1910. Scarecrow Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-8108-8782-4.
- ^ a b Roger Bureau. sports-reference.com
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ Archiefbank Vlaanderen - De geschiedenis van het Belgisch ijshockey (in Dutch)
External links
edit- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
- Olympic ice hockey tournaments 1928+1936 (in Polish)
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