by Hockey Admin | Jul 9, 2024 | Obituaries
03.05.1945 – 20.05.2024 It is with much sadness that The Hockey Museum reports the passing of Graham Evans who died on 20 May. Graham started his hockey career at Churcher’s College, Petersfield. He was also an extremely talented cricketer who was signed on the books...
by Hockey Admin | Jul 9, 2024 | Obituaries
27.06.1927 – 24.06.2024 On Monday 24 June 2024, former Great Britain and Wales international hockey player, David Thomas, passed away peacefully at his home in Abbotskerswell, Devon just a few days before his 97th birthday. David Frederick Colman Thomas was born in...
by Hockey Admin | Jun 13, 2024 | 2024 News Items
On Saturday 18 May 2024, The Hockey Museum (THM) hosted a reunion event for one of the best men’s invitation clubs of their era – the London Indians Hockey Club (formed in 1958 and competing until 2004). Soon after joining THM as a Trustee, Tochi Panesar circulated a...
by Hockey Admin | Jun 13, 2024 | 2024 News Items
The recent D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations remind us, through our ongoing Hockey’s Military Stories research project, that many hockey people of that generation, both men and women, played valiant and vital parts in that fascinating period of modern history...
by Hockey Admin | Jun 13, 2024 | Hockey's Military Stories
Sir John Cecil Masterman was one of hockey’s D-Day heroes, not for efforts on the frontline beaches of Normandy, but for his valuable work for British Intelligence. He was the Chairman of MI5’s Twenty Committee, generally known as the Double-Cross Committee (XX...
