Violet Elton Explained

Violet Elton
Birth Date:13 February 1889[1]
Birth Place:India
Death Date:4 March 1969 (aged 80)[2]
Death Place:Sidmouth, Devon
Country:England

Violet Helen Strachan Elton (1889-1969) was an English badminton player. She started playing badminton in India at the age of seven. After joining a club playing at the Territorial Drill Hall in Kensington she started to come to prominence. She won five All England titles.[3] She was capped nine times by England between 1924 and 1930. Elton died on March 4, 1969, in Sidmouth.[4]

Medal Record at the All England Badminton Championships

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1939 Register; Reference: RG 101/6835A. 5 April 2021. The National Archives, Kew, London. subscription.
  2. Web site: Index entry. 5 April 2021. FreeBMD. ONS.
  3. Book: Davis, Pat. Guinness Book of Badminton. 1983. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. 0-85112-271-X.
  4. Web site: Violet Elton. Badminton England. 2021-04-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20160316000400if_/http://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/text.asp?section=1829&sectionTitle=Violet+Elton#.Vuii9ej7SUk. 2016-03-16. dead.
  5. Web site: Times Archives. Oxfordshire Libraries.

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