Ralph Broome

Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Howard Broome DSO MC (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]

For the English stockjobber and pamphleteer, see Ralph Broome (pamphleteer).

Olympic medal record
Bobsleigh
	1924 Chamonix	Four-man

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.[2] He retired from the Royal Tank Corps as a lieutenant colonel in 1935.[3]

References

1. SR Olympic Sports Retrieved 7 January 2017.
2. "No. 30801". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 July 1918. p. 8439.
3. "British Military lists: Army lists > 1938–1941 – Half-yearly army list > 1940". National Library of Scotland. 31 December 1940. Retrieved 23 January 2016.

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.