Freddie Tomlins' name is just one of more than 20,000 etched on the Air Forces Memorial, men and women lost in action with no known grave.
Behind every inscription is a remarkable story of courage and sacrifice, and 68 British Olympians fell in the two World Wars.
Olympic figure skater Tomlins, shot and killed over the Bay of Biscay in 1943, is no different.
And, as the nation pauses to remember those fallen, injured and affected by conflict, Team GB recalls three Winter Olympians who served their country with distinction on and off the field of play.
Aged just 16, Tomlins competed at the 1936 Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, finishing tenth in the men's figure skating.
He was a team-mate of Cecilia Colledge, the women's silver medallist, whose beloved brother Maule later became one of Tomlins' RAF colleagues and also lost his life in the same year.
Just 12 months after his Olympic debut Tomlins – who also won speed skating titles in England and Australia – finished fifth at the World Championship before travelling to compete in an invitational competition in Germany.
There he beat home favourite Horst Faber and was surprised when presented with an 18-carat gold watch by a watching Adolf Hitler, engraved 'to our dear Freddie'.
He went on to win silver at the 1939 European and World Championships and was targeting a second Games appearance in 1940 – where he was considered the favourite for gold – only for war to intervene.
He signed up with the RAF as a pilot officer a few months later and flew mission after mission for Coastal Command before his bomber was shot down in the Bay of Biscay while hunting a German U-boat on June 23. He was just 23.
Ralph Broom was awarded the Military Cross in 1915 and the Distinguished Service Order three years later while serving in the fledgling tank corps of the Wiltshire Regiment.
Born into a military family in the foothills of the Himalayas, he became the first Asian-born Winter Olympic medallist when he joined forces with Rodney Soher, Alexander Richardson and Thomas Arnold to win men's bobsleigh silver at Chamonix in 1924.
Frederick Browning – who'd been awarded the Distinguished Service Order for conspicuous gallantry during the Battle of Cambrai in 1917 – was due to be part of that team, only to be ruled out after an untimely training accident just before the Games.
He finally became an Olympian four years later in St Moritz, finishing tenth in the men's bobsleigh, and married author Daphne du Maurier shortly after returning home.
In World War II he again served with distinction, becoming known as the 'father of the British airborne forces', whose daring raids behind enemy lines earned them the nickname the 'Red Devils'.
When London, scarred by war, hosted the Games in 1948, Browning, then Sir Frederick, was deputy chair of the British Olympic Association and commandant of the British team.
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