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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 | |||||||||||
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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]