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

World War I Name Age Yeardied Position Team Last yearplayed Service Notes Hobey Baker* 26 1918 Right winger St. Nicholas Hockey Club 1916 United States Army Air Service Crashed while testing a repaired airplane. Willi Bliesener Unknown 1917 Goaltender Berliner Schlittschuhclub 1914 Imperial German Army Killed in action in Belgium. Scotty Davidson* 24 1915 Right winger / defenceman Toronto Blueshirts 1914 Canadian Expeditionary Force There are several conflicting versions of how he died. Michael Joseph HayesValor awards for Michael J. Hayes | Military Times Hall of Valor 24 1918 Forward Colgate University 1917 United States Army Killed by machine-gun fire while assaulting the town of Saint-Juvin. Frank McGee* 33 1916 Centre / rover Ottawa HC 1906 Canadian Expeditionary Force Killed in action during the Battle of the Somme. George Richardson* 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.

Name Age Yeardied Position Team Last yearplayed Service Notes Bobby Bell 35 1940 Right winger McGill Redbirds 1930 / Executed in the Abbeville massacre. Roger Bureau 40 1945 Defenceman Cercle des Patineurs Anversoises 1936 Allied Forces Executed in a German prison camp in April 1945. Edmund Czaplicki 35 1940 Goaltender AZS Warsaw 1930 / Dudley Garrett 20 1944 Defenceman New York Rangers 1943 Royal Canadian Navy The corvette was torpedoed and sunk by the U-boat U-1228, with the loss of all hands. Karel Hartmann 59 1944 Rover Czechoslovakia 1928 / Died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Günther Kelch 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 37 1940 Defenceman / Forward AZS Warsaw 1932 / Killed in the Katyn massacre. Russell McConnell 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 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 42 1945 Centre Budapesti Korcsolyázó Egylet 1933 / Arrested by the Communist police, interrogated and eventually killed on 19 April 1945. Franz Schüßler 31 1942 Defenceman EK Engelmann Wien 1939 Wehrmacht Died in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp in Yushnevo in the Tver Oblast. Aleksander Słuczanowski 41 1942 Defenceman AZS Warsaw 1931 / Alfred Steinke 63 1945 Forward / Defenceman Berliner Schlittschuhclub 1930 Wehrmacht Killed in action. 24 1943 Forward Kansas City Americans 1942 United States Army Killed on a routine scouting mission in Italy after the Germans had been forced to abandon the Barbara Line. Hans Tatzer 39 1944 Left winger EK Engelmann Wien 1938 Wehrmacht Killed in action in Southern France. Rudolf Tobien 26/27 1942 Defenceman Düsseldorfer EG 1941 Wehrmacht Died on the Eastern Front. Joe Turner 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 48/49 1940 Defenceman AZS Warsaw 1931 /

Vietnam War Name Age Yeardied Position Team Last yearplayed Service Notes Tom Brindley 24 1968 Defenceman Colorado College Tigers 1964 United States Army Killed in battle when his platoon reached the top of Hill 881. Steven Riggs25 1968 Centre Colgate Raiders 1965 United States Army

War in Afghanistan Name Age Yeardied Position Team Last yearplayed Service Notes Derek Hines 25 2005 Forward Army Black Knights 2003 United States Army Tom Kennedy Unknown 2012 Defenceman Army Black Knights 1999 United States Army Killed in a suicide bomb attack.

See also List of ice hockey players who died during their playing careers

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