Thomas Homewood: Difference between revisions

Thomas Homewood
Medal record
Representing the United Kingdom
Men's Tug of war

Browse history interactively

← Previous edit

Content deleted Content added

VisualWikitext

Inline

Latest revision as of 05:26, 19 January 2024

Thomas Homewood (25 September 1881 – 1 February 1945) was a British tug of war competitor who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he won the bronze medal as member of the British team Metropolitan Police "K" Division.^[1]

He was killed during World War II in February 1945, aged 63, when his home in Stratford, London was struck by a V2 rocket.^[2]^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Thomas Homewood". Olympedia. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.

External links[edit]

This article about a United Kingdom Olympic medallist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This biographical article related to tug of war is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[Olympedia-1] "Thomas Homewood". Olympedia. Retrieved 12 April 2021.

[WWII-2] "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.

[1]

[2]

@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 }}
-'''Thomas Homewood''' (25 September 1881{{snd}}1 February 1945) was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[tug of war]] competitor who competed in the [[1908 Summer Olympics]]. In 1908 he won the bronze medal as member of the British team ''[[Metropolitan Police]] "K" Division''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/18033 |title=Thomas Homewood |work=Olympedia |access-date=12 April 2021}}</ref>
+'''Thomas Homewood''' (25 September 1881{{snd}}1 February 1945) was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[tug of war]] competitor who competed in the [[1908 Summer Olympics]]. In 1908 he won the bronze medal as member of the British team ''[[Metropolitan Police]] "K" Division''.<ref name=Olympedia>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/18033 |title=Thomas Homewood |work=Olympedia |access-date=12 April 2021}}</ref>
-He was killed during [[World War II]].<ref name="WWII">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=24 July 2018 |work=Sports Reference}}</ref>
+He was killed during [[World War II]] in February 1945, aged 63, when his home in [[Stratford, London]] was struck by a V2 rocket.<ref name="WWII">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=24 July 2018 |work=Sports Reference}}</ref><ref name=Olympedia/>
 ==References==
@@ Line 25: / Line 25: @@
 [[Category:1945 deaths]]
 [[Category:Metropolitan Police officers]]
-[[Category:Olympic tug of war competitors of Great Britain]]
+[[Category:Olympic tug of war competitors for Great Britain]]
 [[Category:Tug of war competitors at the 1908 Summer Olympics]]
 [[Category:Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain]]
@@ Line 31: / Line 31: @@
 [[Category:Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics]]
 [[Category:British civilians killed in World War II]]
-[[Category:Deaths by airstrike during World War II]]
+[[Category:Deaths by German airstrikes during World War II]]
+[[Category:20th-century British people]]