Personal information | |
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Nationality | Australian |
Born | 1888 Sydney |
Died | 1925 London |
Sport | |
Country | Australia |
Sport | Ice hockey |
Team | New South Wales |
Arthur Cuthbertson (1888–1925 ) was an Australian ice hockey player, who represented New South Wales in the first two Goodall Cups.
Cuthbertson was the grandson of the Rev. William Cuthbertson who was a minister of the Pitt Street Congregational Church, Sydney and his parents were William and Edith Cuthbertson of "Arricca" 10 Appian Way, Burwood. His father was a director of Buzacott and Co., Ltd., and a deacon of the Burwood Congregatlonal Church, where his family worshipped. [1] Cuthbertson attended Newington College (1900–1906) [2] and his Headmaster, Dr Charles Prescott, said later that he had a successful school career, and was prominent in sport: "He was a splendid footballer, cricket, too, strongly appealed to him." After matriculation he then studied medicine at the University of Sydney.
In 1909 [3] and 1910 [4] Cuthbertson played ice hockey for the NSW Team in the Goodall Cup. Cuthbertson enlisted in June 1916 as a corporal with the Second Australian Imperial Force Machine Gun Battalion [5] and served at the Battle of Passchendaele, Battle of the Somme and at Messines. After demobilisation he remained in Britain and finished his degrees at Edinburgh and Glasgow. [6] Having graduated, Cutherfson was appointed ship's doctor on Waipara with the British India Line. He visited Sydney in 1922 before his death in a motor vehicle accident in London. [7] He was knocked down and killed by a taxicab. At the time of his death he was 6 foot in height and weighed 17 stone and was looking for a practice in London prior to his expected marriage in September to his fiancé Miss Field. [8]
Cuthbertson's childhood home, family church, school and university
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Australian |
Born | 1888 Sydney |
Died | 1925 London |
Sport | |
Country | Australia |
Sport | Ice hockey |
Team | New South Wales |
Arthur Cuthbertson (1888–1925 ) was an Australian ice hockey player, who represented New South Wales in the first two Goodall Cups.
Cuthbertson was the grandson of the Rev. William Cuthbertson who was a minister of the Pitt Street Congregational Church, Sydney and his parents were William and Edith Cuthbertson of "Arricca" 10 Appian Way, Burwood. His father was a director of Buzacott and Co., Ltd., and a deacon of the Burwood Congregatlonal Church, where his family worshipped. [1] Cuthbertson attended Newington College (1900–1906) [2] and his Headmaster, Dr Charles Prescott, said later that he had a successful school career, and was prominent in sport: "He was a splendid footballer, cricket, too, strongly appealed to him." After matriculation he then studied medicine at the University of Sydney.
In 1909 [3] and 1910 [4] Cuthbertson played ice hockey for the NSW Team in the Goodall Cup. Cuthbertson enlisted in June 1916 as a corporal with the Second Australian Imperial Force Machine Gun Battalion [5] and served at the Battle of Passchendaele, Battle of the Somme and at Messines. After demobilisation he remained in Britain and finished his degrees at Edinburgh and Glasgow. [6] Having graduated, Cutherfson was appointed ship's doctor on Waipara with the British India Line. He visited Sydney in 1922 before his death in a motor vehicle accident in London. [7] He was knocked down and killed by a taxicab. At the time of his death he was 6 foot in height and weighed 17 stone and was looking for a practice in London prior to his expected marriage in September to his fiancé Miss Field. [8]
Cuthbertson's childhood home, family church, school and university