Reggie Pridmore

Reginald George Pridmore was a field hockey player, who won the gold medal with the England team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.

Biography

Pridmore was educated at Elstow School, Elstow and Bedford Grammar School. He played club hockey for Coventry & North Warwicks Hockey Club.
At the 1908 Olympic Games, Pridmore set an Olympic record for most goals scored by an individual in an Olympic final in men's field hockey with his 4 goals in England's 8–1 victory. This record stood till the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, where India's Balbir Singh Sr. scored 5 goals in India's 6–1 victory over the Netherlands.
Pridmore was also a cricketer, and played first-class cricket as a right-hand batsman for Warwickshire. He was a stockbroker by trade.
Pridmore, was killed in action, aged 31, during the First World War, serving as a major with the Royal Field Artillery near the Piave River in Italy. He was buried at the Giavera British Cemetery nearby.