Henry Ashington Explained

Henry Ashington
Birth Date:25 September 1891
Birth Place:Southport, England
Death Date:31 January 1917 (aged 25)
Death Place:near Combles, Somme, France
Sport:Athletics
Event:long jump / triple jump
Club:University of Cambridge

Henry Sherard Osborn Ashington (25 September 1891[1]  - 31 January 1917) was an English track and field athlete[2] who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.[3]

Biography

Ashington was born in 1891 in Southport, Lancashire, the son of Sherard and Lydia Ashington. His father was a solicitor.

Ashington finished second behind Percy Kirwan in the long jump event at the 1912 AAA Championships.[4] [5] [6]

Shortly after the 1912 AAA Championships, he finished tenth in the long jump competition and 15th in the standing long jump event at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.[7]

Ashington was killed in action, aged 25, during the First World War,[8] serving as a captain with the East Yorkshire Regiment near Combles. He was buried in the Combles Communal Cemetery nearby.[9]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Henry Sherard Osborn Ashington - Olympic Record. British Olympic Association.
  2. England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: Henry Sherard O Ashington; Apr-May-Jun quarter 1891; District: Ormskirk; Volume: 8b; Page: 813.
  3. Web site: Henry Ashington . Olympedia . 28 April 2021.
  4. News: Athletic Championship . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer . 24 June 1912 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 16 November 2024 .
  5. News: Amateur Athletic Championship . Leicester Evening Mail . 24 June 1912 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 16 November 2024 .
  6. Web site: AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists . National Union of Track Statisticians . 16 November 2024 .
  7. Web site: Henry Ashington . 3 August 2015 . Sports Reference . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150801182630/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/as/henry-ashington-1.html . 1 August 2015 .
  8. Web site: Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . 3 August 2015 . Sports Reference . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141107022804/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . 7 November 2014 .
  9. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/591609 Ashington, Henry

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