CSlide: I. Brittain, 'Stoke Mandeville Games 1953: Swimming Makes its First Splash', paralympicanorak, 8th Oct. 2012.

I. Brittain, 'Stoke Mandeville Games 1953: Swimming Makes its First Splash', paralympicanorak, 8th Oct. 2012.

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External URL: https://paralympicanorak.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/stoke-mandeville-games-1953-swimming-makes-its-first-splash/
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Date: 8 Oct 2012
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8 Oct 2012
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8 Oct 2012
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'Swimming (42 ft)

After the official opening of the pool by Mrs Walley four paraplegics gave the spectators a demonstration of the ease with which paraplegics could swim. They were Jeanne Kohlhoof, a former nurse in India; ‘Jock Brown’, a Scottish coalminer; Joan ‘Bunty’ Noon, injured in an air crash whilst in the WRAF and Tom Mitchell, injured in a tree-felling accident. [note: 'Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News, 1953, Swimming – Latest Paralympic Game, Friday 14th August; p.13.']'