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Patteson Womersley Nickalls DSO English polo player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics for Great Britain.[1]
Biography [ edit ]
Nickalls was born on 23 January 1877 at North Weald , Essex, the son of Sir Patteson Nickalls , a stockbroker, and his wife Florence.[2] Rugby School .[3] cricket XI from 1892 to 1894[4] rugby XV in 1893. He went to New College, Oxford , played in the Varsity Match for the Oxford University Polo Club in 1895-6-7 and graduated with a BA in 1897. In 1900, he was gazetted to the Durham Light Infantry and served in the Second Anglo-Boer War . He took part in the Relief of Ladysmith and the Battle of Colenso .[3] [5] [3]
Nickalls played polo for England in the 1902 International Polo Cup matches.[6] Roehampton Trophy in 1904 and 1905. In 1905 he played for the Roehampton Club and in 1908 the Roehampton team represented Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and won the gold medal. He captained the English team against America in 1909 in the Westchester Cup with a handicap of +8.[6] [7]
Nickalls served on the Western Front in World War I in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry . He wrote an account of fox hunting behind the lines in 1916.[8] Territorial Reserve , having been awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1918, until 1926.[9]
Nickalls died on 10 September 1946 at the age of 69.
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References [ edit ]
^ British Census 1881 RG11 0857/105 p22
^ a b c Rugby School Register
^ "Patteson Womersley Nickalls" . Cricket Archive. Retrieved 23 November 2012 . Born: 22nd January 1876, Epping, Essex, England. Died: Q3 1946, Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Teams: Rugby School (Miscellaneous: 1892-1894)
^ London Gazette 2 August 1901
^ a b "2009 Westchester Cup International High Goal Polo" . Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2012 .
^ "Polo Monthly" (PDF) . June 1918: 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2013 .
^ The Hounds of War: A Veterans Day for Hunting Soldiers
^ "Military Personnel" (PDF) . The New York Times . Retrieved 23 November 2012 . Patteson Womersley Nickalls, DSO, having attained the age limit, relinquishes his command and retains his rank, 6th February 1926.
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