Kārlis Bone Explained

Kārlis Bone
Birth Date:19 February 1899
Birth Place:Riga, Latvia
Death Place:Sevurallag, Sverdlovsk oblast, Soviet Union
Nationalteam1:Latvia

Kārlis Eduards Bone (19 February 1899  - 13 November 1941) was a Latvian footballer.[1] He played four matches for the Latvia national football team between 1920 and 1924 and competed in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[2] [3]

Personal life and death

Bone was son of merchant Fricis Bone and his wife Anna Katrina (nee Zute) and graduated from Riga German Gymnasium in 1918. He served as a volunteer in the Latvian Army Cavalry Squadron during the Latvian War of Independence between 1918 and 1920. He studied law at the University of Latvia from 1920 to 1929.[3]

He served as an additional magistrate at Riga Regional Court 1928-30, assistant to a Sworn Advocate 1934-36, and Member of Cesis City Board 1936-40. He was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Guard in 1939.[3]

Bone married lawyer Anna Kampe with whom he had two sons. During World War II he (with his wife and sons) was deported from Latvia on 14 June 1941, and died in a Soviet prison camp five months later.[4] [5] [3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kārlis Bone . Olympedia . 22 August 2021.
  2. Kārlis Bone Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418093633/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/karlis-bone-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 4 October 2018.
  3. https://kazhe.lv/futbols/personas/karlis-bone
  4. Web site: Kārlis Bone. 9 October 2020.
  5. Web site: Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 4 October 2018.