Harold Cassels

Harold Cassels
Personal information
Born4 November 1898
Langzhong, China
Died23 January 1975 (aged 76)
Taunton, England
Sport
SportField hockey
PositionCentre-half
– Cambridge Univ - -
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
– England -
– GB -
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Gold medal – first place1920 AntwerpTeam competition

Harold Kennedy Cassels (4 November 1898 – 23 January 1975) was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.[1]

Biography

Cassels was born in Langzhong, Sichuan, western China, the son of a missionary and the first Bishop of West China, William Cassels.[2] He was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate where he played various sports, becoming captain of the football and hockey teams and vice-captain of cricket.[3]

After leaving school, he joined the Royal Flying Corps and served during World War I, where he was mentioned in despatches before becoming a prisoner of war.[3] After the war he studied at Queens' College, Cambridge and earned his blue in 1920 and 1921.[3]

At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, he represented Great Britain at the hockey tournament.[4]

After playing, he became a senior master at the Cathedral School in Shanghai, and later spent a spell in Australia in 1940. After World War II, he returned to England in 1946 and later became a house master at Millfield School.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Harold Cassels". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ↑ "W. W. Cassels, first bishop in Western China".
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Harold Cassels". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  4. ↑ "Olympic Hockey". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 31 July 1920. Retrieved 25 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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