John Yate Robinson
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1908 London | Team competition |
John Yate Robinson MC (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]
Son of clergyman the Reverend Edward Cecil Robinson and his wife Edith Isabella,[4] 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 aged 31 at Roehampton, from wounds he had received in action at El Hannah in Mesopotamia.[1][3][5] He was buried at Great Malvern Cemetery, Worcestershire.[4]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 49.
- ^ "John Robinson". Sports Reference. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ a b c "John Yate Robinson". Radley College Archives. Radley College. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ a b CWGC casualty record
- ^ "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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