Ralph Broome
British Army officer and bobsledder
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Lieutenant colonel Ralph Howard Broome DSO MC (5 July 1889 – 25 January 1985) was a British Army officer and bobsledder who competed during the early 1920s. He was born in Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh, India, and died in Poole, Dorset, England.[1]
Honours
Broome won a silver medal in the four-man event at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix.[1]
Earlier, Broome had been awarded the Military Cross (1915) and Distinguished Service Order (1918) while serving with the Wiltshire Regiment in the First World War.[2] He retired from the Royal Tank Corps as a lieutenant colonel in 1935.[3]
References
Sources
- Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medallists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964[dead link]
- Databaseolympics.com profile
- Wallenchinsky, David. (1984). "Bobsled: Four-Man". In The Complete Book the Olympics: 1896–1980. New York: Penguin Books. p. 559.
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