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H Shoesmith
Nelson
Harry Edward Shoesmith was the son of Richard Shoesmith, a farm bailiff, and his wife, Sophie. Born in Bromley in Kent in 1892 he grew up at Cooper’s Farm Cottage with two of his brothers involved in golf, Richard, a club and ballmaker and Peter, a greenkeeper on the 1901 census.

By 1911 he was assistant to Richard at the Rudyard Lake club in Staffordshire then continued his golfing education as assistant to Bert Batley at Thorpe Hall in Essex.

In 1914 he was one of the assistants who gathered in Trafalgar Square to enlist in what became known as the Niblick Brigade. He became a lance-corporal but unfortunately only a partial fragment of his military record remains but it suggests he was in hospital either sick or wounded.

After the war he became professional at the Nelson club in either 1921 or 1922 and remained there until his death on 20 March 1956.

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