Harold Cassels
British field hockey player
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Harold Kennedy Cassels (4 November 1898 – 23 January 1975) was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
Cassels was born in Langzhong, Sichuan, western China, the son of a missionary and the first Bishop of West China, William Cassels.[2] He was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate where he played various sports, becoming captain of the football and hockey teams and vice-captain of cricket.[3]
After leaving school, he joined the Royal Flying Corps and served during World War I, where he was mentioned in despatches before becoming a prisoner of war.[3] After the war he studied at Queens' College, Cambridge and earned his blue in 1920 and 1921.[3]
At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, he represented Great Britain at the hockey tournament.[4]
After playing, he became a senior master at the Cathedral School in Shanghai, and later spent a spell in Australia in 1940. After World War II, he returned to England in 1946 and later became a house master at Millfield School.[3]
