Robert Adlard

Robert Edward Adlard was an English field hockey player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics representing Great Britain.

Biography

Adlard was educated at Marlborough College He played club hockey for Old Malburians and Cheltenham and represented Gloucestershire and The West. He made his England debut against Wales in 1938.
During World War II he served with the Yeomanry Hussars in the Royal Armoured Corps as a lieutenant in the Middle East.
He was selected for the Olympic Trial and subsequently represented Great [Britain at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Great Britain] in the field hockey tournament at the 1948 Olympic Games in London and won a silver medal.
By trade he was involved in the family paper mill business and was honorary secretary of the Winchcombe Cricket Club.