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Lieutenant-Colonel '''Frederick Robert Lindsay''' [[Military Cross|MC]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] (11 January 1914 &ndash; 6 April 2011)<ref>other sources report his date of birth: ''1 November 1914</ref> was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[field hockey]] player who competed in the [[1948 Summer Olympics]].<br />
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Lindsay was born in [[Delhi]], where his father was a civil engineer for the Indian government, and was educated at [[St Joseph's College, Darjeeling|St Joseph's College]] in [[Darjeeling]]. He arrived in England in 1933 and enlisted in the [[King's Royal Rifle Corps]]. In 1937 he entered [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst|RMC Sandhurst]], where he played hockey for the Army and Scotland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS33900263&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title=Our Hockey Correspondent. "Hockey." Times [London, England] 7 July 1948|work=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref><br />
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Lindsay was commissioned into the [[Royal Tank Corps]] and served in North Africa during the [[World War II|Second World War]], winning the [[Military Cross]] and the [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]]. He then saw action during the [[Allied Invasion of Sicily]] in July 1943. In 1950 he returned to India as an instructor at the Indian Military Staff College in Wellington, south India (now the [[Defense Services Staff College]] (DSSC).<br />
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He was a member of the British field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played all five matches as halfback. The British team lost to India, the country where Lindsay had learned the game.<br />
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070319002123/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LINDSROB02 Frederick Lindsay's profile at databaseOlympics.com]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035712/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/li/robin-lindsay-1.html Frederick Lindsay's profile at Sports Reference.com]<br />
*[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8505507/Lieutenant-Colonel-Robin-Lindsay.html Obituary of Lieutenant-Colonel Robin Lindsay, The Daily Telegraph, 10 May 2011]<br />
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