John Yate Robinson
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.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1908 London | Team competition |
John Yate Robinson (6 August 1885 — 23 August 1916)[1] was a field hockey player, who won a gold medal with the English team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.[2][3]
He was educated at Radley College[3] and Merton College, Oxford, where he was awarded his MA in 1912.[1] He was on the Oxford University hockey team from 1905 through 1909, eventually captaining it.
He became a Captain in the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1914, and served at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross.[1]
He died at Roehampton, from wounds he had received in action at El Hannah in Mesopotamia.[1][3][4]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 49.
- ↑ "John Robinson". Sports Reference. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- 1 2 3 "John Yate Robinson". Radley College Archives. Radley College. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ↑ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
Notes
- Radley College Register 1847-1962, 1965.
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