Girl To Carry. Union Jack
(N :Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) TOKYO, October 4; British Olympic history will be made at the opening ceremony of the eighteenth Olympiad here next Saturday, for a girl will carry the Union Jack. Picked for this honour is the Yorkshire swimmer, Miss Anita Lonsborough, aged 23, who won one of Britain’s two gold medals at the last Olympics in Rome. The other gold medallist there, Don Thompson, the walker, carried the Union Jack at the official flag-rais-ing ceremony on Thursday.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30563, 5 October 1964, Page 19
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82Girl To Carry. Union Jack Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30563, 5 October 1964, Page 19
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