List of ice hockey players who died in wars

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This is a list of ice hockey players who died in wars. The team is the last team the person played for.

* : Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame

Name Age Year
died		 Position Team Last year
played		 Service Notes
Hobey Baker*[1] 26 1918 Right winger St. Nicholas Hockey Club 1916 United States Army Air Service Crashed while testing a repaired airplane.
Willi Bliesener[2] Unknown 1917 Goaltender Berliner Schlittschuhclub 1914 Imperial German Army Killed in action in Belgium.
Scotty Davidson*[1] 24 1915 Right winger / defenceman Toronto Blueshirts 1914 Canadian Expeditionary Force There are several conflicting versions of how he died.
Michael Joseph Hayes[3] 24 1918 Forward Colgate University 1917 United States Army Killed by machine-gun fire while assaulting the town of Saint-Juvin.
Frank McGee*[1] 33 1916 Centre / rover Ottawa HC 1906 Canadian Expeditionary Force Killed in action during the Battle of the Somme.
George Richardson*[1] 29 1916 Left winger Kingston Frontenacs 1912 Canadian Expeditionary Force Killed in action.

World War II

Two National Hockey League players were killed in World War II.[4]

Name Age Year
died		 Position Team Last year
played		 Service Notes
Bobby Bell[5][6] 35 1940 Right winger McGill Redbirds 1930 / Executed in the Abbeville massacre.
Roger Bureau[7] 40 1945 Defenceman Cercle des Patineurs Anversoises 1936 Allied Forces Executed in a German prison camp in April 1945.
Edmund Czaplicki[8] 35 1940 Goaltender AZS Warsaw 1930 /
Dudley Garrett[9] 20 1944 Defenceman New York Rangers 1943 Royal Canadian Navy The corvette HMCS Shawinigan (K136) was torpedoed and sunk by the U-boat U-1228, with the loss of all hands.
Karel Hartmann[10] 59 1944 Rover Czechoslovakia 1928 / Died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Günther Kelch[11][12] 26 1943 Forward Zehlendorfer Wespen 1939 Luftwaffe He was awarded the Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe. He died in July 1943 in Gatchina, near Leningrad when a 21 cm rocket exploded in its under-wing launcher (tube), setting his AC on fire.
Aleksander Kowalski[13] 37 1940 Defenceman / Forward AZS Warsaw 1932 / Killed in the Katyn massacre.
Russell McConnell[14] 24 1942 Right winger Montréal Royals 1942 Royal Canadian Navy Killed in action in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the ship HMCS Raccoon.
Camillo Mussi[15] 28 1940 Forward Hockey Club Milano 1936 Italian Air Force Killed after the plane he was piloting was shot down in Egypt.
József de Révay[16] 42 1945 Centre Budapesti Korcsolyázó Egylet 1933 / Arrested by the Communist police, interrogated and eventually killed on 19 April 1945.
Franz Schüßler[17] 31 1942 Defenceman EK Engelmann Wien 1939 Wehrmacht Died in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp in Yushnevo in the Tver Oblast.
Aleksander Słuczanowski[18] 41 1942 Defenceman AZS Warsaw 1931 /
Alfred Steinke[19][20] 63 1945 Forward / Defenceman Berliner Schlittschuhclub 1930 Wehrmacht Killed in action.
Norbert Sterle[21]241943ForwardKansas City Americans1942United States ArmyKilled on a routine scouting mission in Italy after the Germans had been forced to abandon the Barbara Line.
Hans Tatzer[22] 39 1944 Left winger EK Engelmann Wien 1938 Wehrmacht Killed in action in Southern France.
Rudolf Tobien[23] 26/27 1942 Defenceman Düsseldorfer EG 1941 Wehrmacht Died on the Eastern Front.
Joe Turner[4] 25 1944 or 1945 Goaltender Detroit Red Wings 1942 United States Army Initially listed as missing in action in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest.
Kazimierz Żebrowski[19] 48/49 1940 Defenceman AZS Warsaw 1931 /

Vietnam War

Name Age Year
died		 Position Team Last year
played		 Service Notes
Tom Brindley[24][25] 24 1968 Defenceman Colorado College Tigers 1964 United States Army Killed in battle when his platoon reached the top of Hill 881.
Steven Riggs[25][26] 25 1968 Centre Colgate Raiders 1965 United States Army

War in Afghanistan

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