Frederick Francis Dunkelman (5 or 19 February 1920 – 23 July 2010) was a British
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...
player who competed at the
1948 Winter Olympics
The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz ...
. In
St. Moritz he was a member of the British team that placed fifth in the
ice hockey tournament. He was born in
East Ham,
Greater London and was a member of the
Harringay Greyhounds. In 1946 he founded Dunkelman & Son Ltd, now known as Dasco Shoe Care, in
Battersea to manufacture and sell ice hockey sticks, but moved into the shoe trade in 1950 and to a new location in
Desborough
Desborough is a town in Northamptonshire, England, lying in the Ise Valley between Market Harborough and Kettering. It was an industrial centre for weaving and shoe-making in the 19th century and had a long association with the Co-operative ...
in 1969. He retired from the business after 61 years in 2007 and died in his sleep on 23 July 2010.
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1920 births
2010 deaths
English ice hockey players
Ice hockey players at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players for Great Britain
People from East Ham
Sportspeople from the London Borough of Newham
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