Reg Thomas (athlete), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British middle-distance runner
Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1907
Place of Birth: Pembroke, Wales, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 14-Mar-1946
Profession: middle-distance runner
Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Reg Thomas (athlete)
- Reginald "Reg" Heber Thomas AFC (11 January 1907 – 14 March 1946) was a Welsh middle-distance runner.
- He competed at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1930 British Empire Games.
- He missed the 1936 Summer Olympics because of injury, and did not compete in the 1934 British Empire Games for Wales, because of English objections.
- At both Olympics he was eliminated in the first round of the 1500 metres event.
- At the 1930 Empire Games he won the gold medal in the mile and the silver medal in the 880 yards race.
- He could not compete for Wales because Wales did not have a national athletics association at the time.
- Welsh track and field athletes could only compete for England in 1930 although Welsh swimmers did compete for their home nation.On 8 June 1944 Thomas, now a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, was awarded the Air Force Cross (AFC).By 1946 he was a squadron leader and pilot in the Royal Air Force when he was killed piloting an Avro Lancaster bomber in 1946; after take-off from RAF Aston Down all the engines failed and the bomber crashed into a nursing home at Brown's Hill, Bussage near Chalford, he was later buried at Haycombe Cemetery in Bath.
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See Also
- Famous People's Birthdays on 11 January, United Kingdom
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- Famous People's Birthdays on 11 January, Wales
- Famous People's Birthdays in January, Wales
- Famous middle-distance runner's Birthdays on 11 January, United Kingdom
- Famous middle-distance runner's Birthdays in January, United Kingdom
- Famous middle-distance runner's Birthdays on 11 January, Wales
- Famous middle-distance runner's Birthdays in January, Wales
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