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==Honours==
==Honours==
===International===


'''India'''
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*[[Football at the Asian Games|Asian Games]]: [[Football at the 1951 Asian Games|1951]]
*[[Football at the Asian Games|Asian Games]] Gold medal: [[Football at the 1951 Asian Games|1951]]


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D. N. Devine Jones
Personal information
Full name Desmond Neville Devine-Jones
Date of birth (1928-08-15)15 August 1928
Date of death 11 July 2010(2010-07-11) (aged 81)[1]
Place of death Pune
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Services
National team
India
Honours
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Desmond Neville Devine-Jones (15 August 1928 – 11 July 2010) was a Brigadier[2] in the Army Physical Training Corps (APTC) of the Indian Army.[3] He was part of the 1951 Indian Men's Football team at the 1951 Asian Games[4][5] which won the gold medal in Delhi.

Devine-Jones was also the boxing coach for the Indian Olympic team for the 1972 Munich Olympics,[6][7] as well as the country's flag bearer.[8] He was elected secretary of the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation in 1976 and then reelected in 1980.[9][10] He was an AIBA qualified Referee and Judge and officiated many international boxing championships.[9][10] He was also elected as an executive committee member of AIBA in 1986.[11]

Honours[edit]

India

References[edit]

  1. "Boxing ex-official Devine-Jones dead". Indian Express. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  2. Sainik Samachar: The Pictorial Weekly of the Armed Forces. 1993.
  3. "Bandra boy snaps salute to Uttarakhand Heroes". Mid-Day.
  4. "Former IABF secretary Brigader DN Devine Jones passes away". www.dnaindia.com. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  5. "Devine Jones passes away" - The Hindu
  6. Sainik Samachar: The Pictorial Weekly of the Armed Forces. January 1981.
  7. "India in Olympic Games". www.sportsbharti.com. Archived from the original on 17 September 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  8. "Who are India's flag-bearers at Olympics?". One India News. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  9. 9.0 9.1 Indian and Foreign Review. Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. 1980.
  10. 10.0 10.1 "Boxing ex-official Devine Jones dead - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  11. The States. India News and Feature Alliance.

External links[edit]

Olympic Games
Preceded by
Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
Flagbearer for India
Munich 1972
Succeeded by
Zafar Iqbal