Freddie Tomlins competed in men's figure skating for Great Britain at the 1936 Olympics. He finished 10th. In 1939 he won a silver medal in both the European and World Championships. He was presented with a gold wristwatch by Adolf Hitler when he won an international figure skating championship in Germany in 1937. He joined the RAF in 1938 or 1939. He was killed June 20, 1943 over the English Channel in a battle with a German Submarine. These are from a pair of family scrapbooks I recently acquired. I would not normally purchase items related to a non-U.S. Olympian, but these were too nice to pass up. One scrapbook was all newspaper articles. The second scrapbook was filled with newspaper articles and clippings, 25 real photo post cards (RPPC's) and 40 photos ranging in size from about 2x3 to 8x10.
Three of these are RPPC's. The deckle edge one is not. The two on the left were taken by German photographers from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany site of the 1936 Winter Olympics. The posed one in his official Olympic outfit, top right, was taken by a photographer from Nürnberg (Nuremberg).
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