Olga Menchik (Menčíková, Menčik) Rubery (1908,

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– 26 June 1944, Clapham,

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) was a Czech–British female

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master. Born in Moscow to a Czech father and a British mother, she was younger sister to Vera Menchik. They all moved to England in 1921. In January 1927, Vera won the London ladies championship, and Olga took second place. She took fourth place in the fifth

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at Warsaw 1935, and tied for 17-20th in the sixth WWCC at Stockholm 1937 (Vera Menchik won both events). She married a British man, Clifford Granville Rubery.
CWGC Casualty Record, Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough. Olga, aged 37, her sister and their mother were killed in a bombing raid when a German V-1 flying bomb, V-1 flying bomb hit her home at 47 Gauden Road, Clapham, south London, in 1944.Girls in Chess, way back "Then"!

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