Bert Holcroft
Ozi nkeonwe
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| Juputara aha | Herbert Holcroft | ||||
| Amụrụ | 8 Ọgọst 1925 </br> Leigh, Lancashire |
Nwụrụ | 17 Ọgọstụ 2021 (agadi 96) </br> Leigh, Lancashire |
Ozi nkuzi
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Bert Holcroft bụ onye England bụbu onye egwuregwu bọọlụ rugby, onye nchịkwa na onye ode akwụkwọ na nkuzi egwuregwu rugby.
Ọrụ agha
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Bert Holcroft sonyeere Royal Navy mgbe ọ dị afọ 18 ma bụrụ 20 mgbe ọ jere ozi na Flower-class Corvette HMS Petunia . Na 6 June 1944, HMS Petunia so na ndị agha mmiri so na mbuso agha nke Normandy, na na D-Day . HMS Petunia bụ ụgbọ njem maka otu n'ime ndị njem mwakpo ahụ. [1] N'oge mwakpo ahụ ụgbọ mmiri ahụ nwetara " mayday " site na ụgbọ mmiri ndị America na-agbadata nke kụrụ ogbunigwe . Holcroft so na ndị ahụ zọpụtara mmadụ iri isii n'ime ndị agha n'ụgbọ mmiri na-agbadata. Na 2016 Holcroft ejiri Legion d'Honneur chọọ ya mma site n'aka gọọmentị France - ihe nrite Holcroft raara nye ndị nwoke echekwara na D-Day. [2]
Njikọ Rugby
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Mgbe agha ahụ gachara Bert Holcroft gbara egwuregwu rugby maka otu onye na-amu amu Wigan Road Working Men's RLFC yana ndị otu Leigh . Ọ zụkwara ndị otu obere B na Colts maka Leigh. [2]
Na 1960 Holcroft na nwunye ya, Bridget, kwagara Australia ebe ọ kụziri obere akụkụ Murwillumbah Brothers ka ọ bụrụ ọkwa mbụ na Tweed Rugby League na 1961 na 1962. [3] Holcroft zụkwara ndị otu nnọchi anya Bundaberg ebe o webatara usoro ọzụzụ ọhụrụ metụtara nri na ọzụzụ ibu. [4]
A họpụtara Holcroft ka ọ bụrụ onye nchịkwa nke Eastern Suburbs na New South Wales Rugby League Premiership na 1965. East bụ akụkụ adịghị ike n'oge ahụ, na-emeri naanị egwuregwu ise n'ime oge abụọ bu ụzọ n'okpuru Dick Dunn na onye England ibe ya Nat Silcock Jr. N'okpuru Holcroft, ha meriri naanị egwuregwu atọ nke 36 gbara ọsọ na oge abụọ ọ na-elekọta; na 1966 Easts ghọrọ nke kacha ọhụrụ ( As of 2022[update] Premiership otu agaghị emeri egwuregwu n'oge oge. [5]
N'ime afọ ndị ahụ Holcroft zụlitere ọzụzụ ya na usoro ahụike ya n'ime usoro akwụkwọ maka rugby na football. Holcroft nwụrụ na Ọgọst 17, 2021. [6]
Ntụaka
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- ↑ HMS PETUNIA (K 79) - Flower-class Corvette (31 May 2011). Retrieved on 3 October 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Maxwell. "Former rugby ace helped save 60 drowning soldiers on D-Day", Leigh Journal, 31 May 2016. Retrieved on 22 August 2018.Maxwell, Kelsey (31 May 2016). "Former rugby ace helped save 60 drowning soldiers on D-Day". Leigh Journal. Retrieved 22 August 2018. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "leighjournal" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ "Brothers legends set to celebrate", Tweed Daily News, 13 September 2011.
- ↑ Barnett (2015). For the Love of the Game. Boolarong. ISBN 978-1925236088.
- ↑ "Who were the worst NRL teams of all time?", Daily Telegraph, 4 November 2015.
- ↑ Herbert Holcroft. Leigh Journal. Retrieved on 23 January 2022.