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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]

Olympic medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing Great Britain ( England)
	1908 London	Team competition

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.[5]

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][6] He was buried at Great Malvern Cemetery, Worcestershire.[4]

See also

• List of Olympians killed in World War I

References

External links

• John Yate Robinson at Olympedia

Notes

• Radley College Register 1847–1962, 1965.

На других языках

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- [en] John Yate Robinson

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[fr] John Robinson (hockey sur gazon)

John Yate Robinson, né le 6 août 1885 à Burton upon Trent et mort le 23 août 1916 à Roehampton, est un joueur de hockey sur gazon britannique.

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[ru] Робинсон, Джон (хоккеист на траве)

Джон Йейт Робинсон (англ. John Yate Robinson; 6 августа 1885, Кэтфорд[d], Большой Лондон — 23 августа 1916, Рогемптон, Большой Лондон) — английский хоккеист на траве, полузащитник. Олимпийский чемпион 1908 года.

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