About Percival Bromfield
Lived 1886 – 1947 (aged 60–61). Percival Bromfield was a British table tennis player.
John Percival Bromfield (April 1886 – 1947), was a male English international table tennis player.
Table tennis career He won a bronze medal at the 1926 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event.
He was the English Champion in 1903-04 and again in 1923-24 and invented the flick-stroke, the foundation of the modern attacking He also won two English Open titles.
Bromfield ran the table tennis club in which Charlie Bull learnt to play.
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Who was Percival Bromfield?
British table tennis player
When was Percival Bromfield born?
Percival Bromfield was born on 1 April 1886 in Birmingham.
When did Percival Bromfield die?
Percival Bromfield died in 1947 in London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
What was Percival Bromfield's occupation?
Percival Bromfield was a table tennis player.
What nationality was Percival Bromfield?
Percival Bromfield was British.
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