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Dennis Brian Douglas Field (died 6 June 1940) was a British
bobsled Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...
der who competed in the early 1930s. He won the bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1931 FIBT World Championships in
St. Moritz St. Moritz (also german: Sankt Moritz, rm, , it, San Maurizio, french: Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in ...
. Field was a member of the Royal Air Force and was the steersman in the four man bobsleigh along with Pilot Officer
Jack Newcombe Jack Stewart Newcombe (1910-1931) was a British bobsledder who competed in the early 1930s. He won the bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1931 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz. Bobsleigh Newcombe was the brakeman and a member of ...
(brakeman), Pilot Officer Ralph Wallace and Pilot Officer Paddy Coote. Field was killed in action over Germany in 1940.


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Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
British male bobsledders Year of birth missing 1940 deaths {{UK-bobsleigh-bio-stub