Herman Donners Explained

Birth Date:	5 August 1888
Birth Place:	Antwerp, Belgium
Death Place:	Calais, France
Sport:	Water polo

Herman Louis Clement Donners (5 August 1888  - 14 May 1915) was a Belgian water polo player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics.^[1] He was part of the Belgian water polo team and won a silver and a bronze medal.^[2]

Personal life and death

Donners was born in Antwerp, Belgium, son of Jean Henri Edmond Donners and his wife Celene Helene Joseph (nee Verspreuwen). He enlisted in the Belgian Army in 1914 and died in Calais, France, of wounds received in action during World War I in May 1915. He is buried in Antwerp.^{[3] [4]}

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
• List of Olympians killed in World War I

Notes and References

1. Web site: Herman Donners . Olympedia . 12 April 2021.
2. Web site: Herman Donners . 3 August 2015 . Sports Reference . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150801192037/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/do/herman-donners-1.html . 1 August 2015 . dmy-all .
3. https://www.wardeadregister.be/en/dead-person?idPersonne=16738
4. Web site: Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . 3 August 2015 . Sports Reference . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141107022804/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . 7 November 2014 . dmy-all .