Harold Greenwood | |||||||||
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Born | Harold Gustave Francis Greenwood 15 November 1894 Peterborough, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||
Died | 8 July 1978 Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, Great Britain | (aged 83)||||||||
Relatives | Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (grandfather) | ||||||||
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Military career | |||||||||
Allegiance | United Kingdom | ||||||||
Service/ | Royal Engineers | ||||||||
Rank | Chief Engineer | ||||||||
Unit | Western Command | ||||||||
Battles/wars | World War I, World War II | ||||||||
Awards | Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
Harold Gustave Francis Greenwood CBE (15 November 1894, Peterborough[1] – 8 July 1978, Buckingham) was a Canadian-British military engineer and an ice hockey player who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics.[2]
Greenwood was the grandson of Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière[3] and graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1914. He moved to Europe during World War I, and in World War II served as a brigadier-general[2] in the Corps of Royal Engineers[3][2][4] in India, Sri Lanka, and southeast Asia. In 1945, he became Chief Engineer of the Western Command and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He retired in 1947.[2]
In 1928 he finished fourth[citation needed] with the British team in the Olympic tournament.[2][5]
Greenwood married Gwyneth Lemon from Winnipeg on 12 April 1928 at the British Embassy Church in Paris.[3]