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| Birth Name: | Harold Gustave Francis Greenwood | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 15 November 1894 | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Peterborough, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
| Relatives: | Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (grandfather) | ||||||||||||||
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Harold Gustave Francis Greenwood (15 November 1894, Peterborough – 8 July 1978, Buckingham) was a Canadian-British military engineer and an ice hockey player who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics.
Greenwood was the grandson of Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière and graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1914. He moved to Europe during World War I, and in World War II served as a brigadier-general in the Corps of Royal Engineers[1] in India, Sri Lanka, and southeast Asia. In 1945, he became Chief Engineer of the Western Command and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He retired in 1947.[2]
In 1928 he finished fourth with the British team in the Olympic tournament.[2] [3]
Greenwood married Gwyneth Lemon from Winnipeg on 12 April 1928 at the British Embassy Church in Paris.[4]