About Robin Lindsay
Lived 1914 – 2011 (aged 97). Robin Lindsay was a British field hockey player.
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Robert Lindsay, DSO MC (11 January 1914 – 6 April 2011) was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Biography Lindsay was born in Delhi, where his father was a civil engineer for the Indian government, and was educated at St Joseph's College in Darjeeling.
Lindsay was commissioned into the Royal Tank Corps and served in North Africa during the Second World War, winning the Military Cross and the 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).
He was selected for the Olympic Trial and subsequently represented Great Britain in the field hockey tournament at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, winning a silver medal.
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Who was Robin Lindsay?
field hockey player (1914–2011)
When was Robin Lindsay born?
Robin Lindsay was born on 11 January 1914 in Delhi.
When did Robin Lindsay die?
Robin Lindsay died on 6 April 2011.
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Robin Lindsay was a field hockey player.
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Robin Lindsay was British.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Robin Lindsay. https://biography.guide/robin-lindsay-field-hockey-player/
MLA: "Robin Lindsay." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/robin-lindsay-field-hockey-player/.
Chicago: "Robin Lindsay." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/robin-lindsay-field-hockey-player/.
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