Ralph Broome Explained

Lieutenant colonel Ralph Howard Broome (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. He retired from the Royal Tank Corps as a lieutenant colonel in 1935.^[2]

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.

Notes and References

1. SR Olympic Sports Retrieved 7 January 2017.
2. Web site: British Military lists: Army lists > 1938–1941 – Half-yearly army list > 1940 . 31 December 1940. National Library of Scotland. 23 January 2016.