Robert Henry ( – 21 September 1954) was a New Zealand

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player. At the

1950 British Empire Games The 1950 British Empire Games were the fourth staging of what is now called the Commonwealth Games. It was held in Auckland, New Zealand, between 4 and 11 February 1950, after a 12-year gap from the third edition of the games. A documentary fil ...

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he won the gold medal in the men's pair alongside

Phil Exelby Evan Philip Exelby (12 October 1905 – 6 June 1981) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player. Bowls career At the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland he won the men's pairs gold medal with Robert Henry. In 1947, Exelby won the New Zealand Nation ...

. The pair, with Henry playing lead, won all three of their round-robin matches to take the title. Henry arrived in New Zealand in about 1910. He was a police sergeant in

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, and a member of the Sydenham Bowling Club in that city. He died in Christchurch on 21 September 1954, and was buried at the Ruru Lawn Cemetery.

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