Hamilton Jukes

Hamilton Dawson Jukes was a Canadian-born ice hockey player who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics with the British team.

Biography

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he was a member of the British ice hockey team, which won the bronze medal in 1924. After being invalidated out of the army in 1917, he settled in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before starting work as an engineer in the oil industry for British American Oil. He worked and lived in Colombia and Peru for 25 years with his first wife, Dilys Gwendolyn, and their five children, Dilys Mary -, Margaret Cleaton -, Yvonne Sarah, Maureen Hamilton -, and Arthur Hamilton. He remarried and moved to Escondido, California in late 1948. Jukes and his second wife Margaret had two sons, Hamilton Dawson Jr. and John Frederick. Jukes died by suicide in Escondido, California in 1951.