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[[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant Colonel]] '''Ralph Howard Broome''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|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, India|Dalhousie]], Himachal Pradesh, India, and died in Poole, Dorset, England.<ref name="Olympic" >SR Olympic Sports [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6TxoDoOmO4 Retrieved 7 January 2017.]</ref>
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[[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant Colonel]] '''Ralph Howard Broome''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DSO|MC}} (5 July 1889 – 25 January 1985) was a [[British Army]] officer and [[bobsled]]der who competed during the early 1920s. He was born in [[Dalhousie, India|Dalhousie]], Himachal Pradesh, India, and died in [[Poole]], [[Dorset]], England.<ref name="Olympic" >SR Olympic Sports [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6TxoDoOmO4 Retrieved 7 January 2017.]</ref>
  
   
 
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Earlier, Broome had been awarded the [[Military Cross]] ([[1915 Birthday Honours|1915]]) and [[Distinguished Service Order]] (1918) while serving with the [[Wiltshire Regiment]] in [[World War I|the First World War]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30801 |date=13 July 1918 |page=8439 |supp=y}}</ref> He retired from the [[Royal Tank Regiment|Royal Tank Corps]] as a lieutenant colonel in 1935.<ref>{{cite web|title=British Military lists: Army lists > 1938–1941 – Half-yearly army list > 1940 |date=31 December 1940|url=http://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/pageturner.cfm?id=88891554&mode=transcription|publisher=National Library of Scotland|accessdate=23 January 2016}}</ref>
  
Earlier, Broome had been awarded the [[Military Cross]] ([[1915 Birthday Honours|1915]]) and [[Distinguished Service Order]] (1918) while serving with the [[Wiltshire Regiment]] in [[World War I|the First World War]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30801 |date=13 July 1918 |page=8439 |supp=y}}</ref> He retired from the [[Royal Tank Regiment|Royal Tank Corps]] as a lieutenant colonel in 1935.<ref>{{cite web|title=British Military lists: Army lists > 1938–1941 – Half-yearly army list > 1940 |date=31 December 1940|url=http://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/pageturner.cfm?id=88891554&mode=transcription|publisher=National Library of Scotland|accessdate=23 January 2016}}</ref>
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Revision as of 01:15, 8 March 2020

For the English stockjobber and pamphleteer, see Ralph Broome (pamphleteer).

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|- | style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | Silver medal – second place|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1924 Chamonix|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | Four-man 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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 SR Olympic Sports Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "No. 30801". 13 July 1918. p. 8439. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30801/supplement/8439 
  3. ↑ "British Military lists: Army lists > 1938–1941 – Half-yearly army list > 1940". National Library of Scotland. 31 December 1940. http://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/pageturner.cfm?id=88891554&mode=transcription. Retrieved 23 January 2016. 

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