George Wilson (bowls)
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George L Wilson (1903 - date of death unknown), was a South African international
lawn bowler Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ...
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Bowls career

He won a
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in the fours at the
1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fi ...
in Vancouver, with Frank Mitchell,
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Personal life

He was an engineer by trade.


References

1903 births Date of death unknown Bowls players at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games South African male bowls players Commonwealth Games gold medallists for South Africa Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Medallists at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games {{SouthAfrica-bowls-bio-stub