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Percy Legard (Charles Percy Digby Legard) was born on 17 June, 1906 in Saltash, Cornwall, England, is a British Army officer and sportsman. Discover Percy Legard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As Charles Percy Digby Legard
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Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 17 June 1906
Birthday 17 June
Birthplace Saltash, Cornwall, England
Date of death 16 February, 1980
Died Place Ryedale, North Yorkshire, England
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1906

Percy Legard (17 June 1906 – 16 February 1980) was a British Army officer and sportsman.

Legard competed as an Olympian in both Summer and Winter disciplines.

He was, respectively, a modern pentathlete and a Nordic combined skier.

He also took part in the demonstration of the winter pentathlon as an Olympic sport.

In addition, he took part in the inaugural meeting of the Badminton Horse Trials.

He was a regular officer in the British Army and during the Second World War he served in the Commandos, where he was the initial Commanding Officer of No.4 Commando.

Legard was born in 1906 in Saltash in Cornwall but spent most of his childhood in Sweden, where he developed his un-English expertise in skiing and other Nordic sports.

He came from a junior branch of the long-established family of Yorkshire gentry.

The family had been loyal servants of the Crown since the Civil War and his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all officers, either of the British Army - and Britain's Indian Army - or, since the family lived close to Scarborough, the Royal Navy.

Legard's father was a naval officer.

He returned to England to enter the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

On passing out, he joined the elite cavalry regiment which, after a couple of variants of name-style, became known as the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.

1929

Legard became the British ski-jump champion in St. Moritz in January 1929.

Legard became one of the first three British men to achieve a 50 m. jump, together with Guy Nixon and Colin Wyatt.

1931

These three men were considered sufficiently credible competitors to represent Britain in the 1931 World Championships in Oberhof in Thüringen in Germany.

Following the 1931 winter championships, Legard had added five new events as he was training for modern pentathlon in the Summer Olympics.

1932

In the Summer Olympics, he competed in the modern pentathlon at both the 1932 and in 1936 Summer Olympics.

In the Los Angeles meeting, Legard came 8th overall and won the 4 kilometre cross-country element.

1934

Legard attended the 1934 World Championships, held at Sollefteå in Sweden.

1936

At this time, the Summer and Winter Olympiads were still held in the same year and as well as the 1936 Summer Olympics, Legard competed in the Winter games of that year.

His event was the Nordic combined, which married a 15 kilometre cross-country ski-race with 2 attempts at the ski-jump.

1938

In 1938 the regiment was mechanised to become an armoured regiment.

1939

When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Legard's regiment had only just pensioned-off its horses in favour of Mark VI light tanks.

1940

Legard's Olympic career was interrupted by the war years, which eliminated the Olympiads of 1940 and 1944.

The regiment was sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force, but in 1940 these light tanks could not match their Panzerwaffe counterparts and the regiment was soon involved in the confused withdrawal that led to Dunkirk.

Back in Britain, the armoured units awaited be re-equipped with more modern and powerful weapons.

Meanwhile, the new Prime Minister Winston Churchill was keen to keep the land forces busy and pre-empt a spirit of defeatism from taking hold in the British Army.

He also wished to prick the sense of invincibility of the Wehrmacht.

His answer was a force of Commandos, volunteers to cross the Channel and harass the enemy garrisons the length of the coastline of occupied Europe.

Legard became a member of this force and the Commandos soon developed an esprit de corps and a methodology and expertise in amphibious warfare.

A formal training programme was developed and established at Achnacarry.

At 34 years of age, he was much older than most of the Commandos, but as an experienced officer, his value lay more as a unit commander than as a leader of the individual assault teams.

Legard was soon given command of No.4 Commando, as a Lieutenant-Colonel.

1946

46 competitors completed the events, including Legard who came 44th.

To date, Legard is the only Briton ever to have competed in this event at the Olympics.

1948

Nevertheless, he was to make one more Olympic appearance after the War, in 1948, some sixteen years after his first Olympic appearance.

Legard was a serving officer in the British Army and the sports in which he chose to participate were all considered appropriate for the development of athleticism.

1971

The field was 71, but this time Legard had less success and came 65th overall.

1973

73 men entered the competition but only 47 completed the events, among whom was Legard, in 43rd place.

2019

In the Berlin meeting Legard came 19th and was 4th in the cross-country.