Roger Bureau

Roger Bureau
Personal information
Born 1 February 1909
Antwerp, Belgium
Died April 1945 (aged 36)
Sport
Sport Ice hockey
Belgian team at the European Championships in Austria, 1927[1]
Louis Franck, Louis De Ridder, Willy Kreitz, Hector Chotteau, Albert Collon, David Meyer and Roger Bureau

Roger Eugene Bureau (1 February 1909 around 11 April 1945) was a Belgian speed skater and ice hockey player. As a speed skater he finished seventh at the 1926 European Championships.[2] As a hockey player he won a silver medal at the Ice Hockey European Championship 1927,[3] and finished fifth and 13th at the 1928 and 1936 Winter Olympics, respectively.[3]

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.[4]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Archiefbank Vlaanderen - De geschiedenis van het Belgisch ijshockey (Dutch)
  2. 1 2 3 Roger Bureau. speedskatingstats.com
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Tomasz Malolepszy (2013). European Ice Hockey Championship Results: Since 1910. Scarecrow Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-8108-8782-4.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Roger Bureau. sports-reference.com

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