Noël Declercq (26 December 1912 – 3 May 1945) was a Belgian

cyclist Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...

. He was one of the victims of the bombing of the

SS Cap Arcona SS ''Cap Arcona'', named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a requisitioned auxiliary ship of the Kriegsmarine (Nazi Germany, Nazi German War Navy), and finally a prison ship in the later months of Wo ...

and SS Thielbek by the RAF in May 1945. He was one of the prisoners that were being moved from the

Neuengamme concentration camp Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and List of subcamps of Neuengamme, more than 85 satellite camps. Established in 1938 near the village of Neuengamme, Hamburg, N ...

Major results

;1937 : 3rd - Paris - Roubaix ;1939 : 10th - Paris - Roubaix

Giro d'Italia

1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...

- 37th

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Declercq, Noël Belgian male cyclists 1912 births 1945 deaths Sportspeople from Mouscron Belgian civilians killed in World War II Deaths by British airstrikes during World War II Deaths due to shipwreck at sea Neuengamme concentration camp survivors Cyclists from Hainaut (province) 20th-century Belgian sportsmen