Frederick Francis Dunkelman (5 or 19 February 1920 – 23 July 2010) was a British

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

player who competed at the

1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (; ; ; ) and commonly known as St. Moritz 1948 (; ), were a winter multi-sport event held from 30 January to 8 February 1948 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The Games were the ...

. In

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he was a member of the British team that placed fifth in the ice hockey tournament. He was born in

East Ham East Ham is a district of the London Borough of Newham, England, 8 miles (12.8 km) east of Charing Cross. Within the boundaries of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Essex, East Ham is identified in the London Plan as a ...

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, and was a member of the

Harringay Greyhounds Harringay Greyhounds were a British ice hockey club based in Harringay, England. The side was founded in 1936 and initially played alongside Harringay Racers at the Harringay Arena. Both sides entered the English National League, which Greyho ...

. In 1946 he founded Dunkelman & Son Ltd, now known as Dasco Shoe Care, in

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to manufacture and sell ice hockey sticks, but moved into the shoe trade in 1950 and to a new location in

Desborough Desborough is a town in North Northamptonshire, England, lying in the Ise Valley between Market Harborough and Kettering. It was an industrial centre for weaving and shoe-making in the 19th century and had a long association with the Co-opera ...

in 1969. He retired from the business after 61 years in 2007 and died in his sleep on 23 July 2010.

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* * 1920 births 2010 deaths English ice hockey players Ice hockey players at the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Great Britain People from East Ham Sportspeople from the London Borough of Newham Ice hockey people from London {{England-icehockey-bio-stub