John William Hamilton Anderson (born 1912, date of death unknown) was a British born, 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 ...

Bowls career

Anderson 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,

Wilfred Randall Wilfred A Randall (1914 – date of death unknown), was a South African international lawn bowler. Bowls career He won a gold medal in the fours at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, with Frank Mitchell, George Wilson ...

and George Wilson. Anderson won the 1949 rinks at the

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, bowling for the Durban Bowls Club.

Personal life

Anderson was a company director by trade.

References

1912 births Year of death missing 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 British emigrants to South Africa Medallists at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games {{SouthAfrica-bowls-bio-stub