[1][4] He won the pentathlon at the Inter-Allied Games in 1919, beating Eugene Vidal and Géo André.
[5] Born in Lewiston, Maine to French-Canadian parents, LeGendre would lose his father at the age of 1, leaving his mother to raise Bob and his 9 siblings by herself (she would later pass while LeGendre was aged 19).
[1] LeGendre died of bronchial pneumonia at the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on January 21, 1931, aged 33.
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