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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 SR Olympic Sports Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- ↑ "No. 30801". 13 July 1918. p. 8439. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30801/supplement/8439
- ↑ "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.
Sources
- Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medallists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964
- Databaseolympics.com profile
- Wallenchinsky, David. (1984). "Bobsled: Four-Man". In The Complete Book the Olympics: 1896–1980. New York: Penguin Books. p. 559.
The original article can be found at Ralph Broome and the edit history here.