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...
by Hockey Admin | Jun 12, 2024 | Obituaries
Travellers Hockey Club during their 50th anniversary celebrations in Oxford in 2010. Tony Henman is second from right in the back row. Photograph courtesy of Cyril Flajsner. 12.04.1940 – 03.05.2024 Anthony John Shirley Henman, known as Tony, an Oxford solicitor...
