Bill Lindsay-Smith

William Aubrey Lindsay-Smith was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the British field hockey team which won the bronze medal.

Biography

Lindsay-Smith was born in Burma, due to the fact that his father was a divisional forest officer there. The family moved to Wales in 1944 and Bill attended the University College of North Wales. He followed his father into the Forestry Commission and worked as a District Officer for Gwydir Forest and then Aberystwyth.
He played hockey at University and played his club hockey for Ruthin Hockey Club and represented Wales at international level.
He received the call up for the Olympics in May 1952 and was one of three Welshman in the team with Graham Dadds and John Paskin Taylor. He subsequently represented Great Britain in the field hockey tournament at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, although he had to settle for being an unused substitute.