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Gaston Joseph Clement Marie Salmon (5 March 1878 – 30 April 1918) was a Belgian
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, foil, and
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fencer. He was Jewish.


Early and personal life

Salmon was born in
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, in the city of
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, in Belgium, and was Jewish, his parents being Emile Telesphore Joseph and his wife Antoinette Cecile Josephe Marie (''nee'' Crispin). He married Ferdinande Betsy Ermens, and lived in Etterbeek."Un double héros – Je rêve à toi dans l'absolu de ton absence"
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he enlisted in the Belgian Army on 14 May 1917. He was killed in an air raid by a German plane at Veurne, Belgium, in April 1918 aged 40, and is buried in the Belgian Military Cemetery in
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.


Olympic fencing career

Salmon represented Belgium at the 1912
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, competing in three events, winning a
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in team
épée The ( or , ), sometimes spelled epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern derives from the 19th-century , a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword. This contains ...
. He also competed in two individual events, but was eliminated in the first round of both the individual foil and individual
sabre A sabre ( French: sabʁ or saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as th ...
. The team included artist
Jacques Ochs Jacques Ochs (18 February 1883 – 3 April 1971), was a Jewish Belgian artist and Olympic fencer in the épée style (in which he was champion) and competed in the saber, and foil fencing categories. Biography Ochs was Jewish, and was bor ...
.


See also

* List of select Jewish fencers


References


Further reading

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External links


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1878 births 1918 deaths Belgian male fencers Belgian épée fencers Jewish Belgian sportspeople Jewish male épée fencers Jewish male foil fencers Jewish male sabre fencers Olympic fencers of Belgium Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Belgium Place of birth missing Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics Belgian military personnel killed in World War I Deaths by airstrike during World War I Belgian Army personnel of World War I 20th-century Belgian people {{Belgium-Olympic-medalist-stub