John Walker (rowing)
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John Drummond Walker (4 January 1891 – 22 July 1952) was a British rowing coxswain who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1]
Walker was born in Oxford, the son of Rev. Edward Newburn Walker, senior tutor of The Queen's College, Oxford, and his wife Gertrude May Hamilton. He was educated at New College, Oxford.
Walker was the coxswain of the New College eight which won the silver medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics.[2]
In 1918, Walker was in the Naval Sea Transport Branch, Ministry of Shipping, when he was awarded the MBE.[3]
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- ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 7 January, 1918
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- 1891 births
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- British male rowers
- Olympic rowers for Great Britain
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- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
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- British coxswains (rowing)
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- Members of the Order of the British Empire