One who served for his country died crashing into European mountain (6)

I believe the answer is:

edberg

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(Other definitions for edberg that I've seen before include "Wimbledon champion" , "Stefan -, Swedish tennis player" , "6 24 113 [SCAN-DIN-AVIAN] tennis player" .)

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