![]() | This article is written in Canadian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, centre, travelled, realize, analyze) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
![]() | This article is rated Stub-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
I have a pin dated 1930 from the British Empire Games. I am trying to find out any information, i.e. value, what it was given out for, etc...If anybody out there could help me out my E-Mail address is [email protected]
Bob Pearce of Australia was participating in these 1930 British Empire Games. Does anyone know if he won a medal in the singles scull? Reply to [email protected] I was born three blocks from Scott Park in August 1930 and he is why my mother gave me the first name of Robert. Thanks
One Robert Pearce did in fact represent Australia at the 1930 British Empire Games and not only that he won one of Australia's first Commonwealth Games gold medals in the single sculls.
He defeated one H. Beresford of England who won the silver and one H. Bradley also of England who the bronze.
Regards Ianblair23 16:34, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
why is the flag of Leinster used here rather than the Image:Flag of Ireland.svg? did the irish team at the games represent the whole of ireland, or either north or south? -- Astrokey 44 11:41, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Apparently the pic for Newfoundland's Red Ensign has been deleted from Wikipedia. The link to the flag in the medal listings should probably be fixed or removed. I don't know where to get a public domain copy of the flag... Simonus
In the Commonwealth Games main article, section 'Approved sports' is something like this: Sport Type Years Handball Recognised 1930 Should this mean that handball was played at these 1930 games? There is no mention in this page about handball. 82.141.94.241 ( talk) 03:10, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!
-- JeffGBot ( talk) 03:48, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
It's not clear what flags were used by the four home nations in 1930. A bit of Googling yields the following:
This postcard (I think it postdates the games; compare the actual podium) suggests:
England |
![]() |
Union jack |
Scotland |
![]() |
Red lion rampant |
Ireland |
![]() |
Green harp flag |
Wales |
![]() |
Red dragon |
But it also suggests South Africa used the red ensign, when the actually used the Oranje-Blanje-Blou (see below).
This report of the opening ceremony mentions (4th paragraph) "the flags and standards of the 11 competing countries" [emphasis added].
The podium photo above is from the Turofsky Gallery in the Canada sport Hall of Fame website. Annoyingly, the photos expected on the pages are missing, but I think they are the same as the listed in the site's Apache directory with 2008.44.99xx in the name. Many are also in Hamilton public library local history (category: IMDB >Collections >British Empire Games Album), which have better captions. Sadly, they're not in colour.
The following link to Turofsky photos with Hamilton public library captions:
The following Hamilton public library captions have no direct link:
The Welsh flag is just about visible behind New Zealand in this photo; it could well be the red dragon. According to this preview article, the order was to be "Newfoundland, Bermuda, British Guiana, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England and Canada"; dunno whether Wales skipped ahead of South Africa or New Zealand fell behind them. jnestorius( talk) 18:59, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on 1930 British Empire Games. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 18:02, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion:
You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. — Community Tech bot ( talk) 14:21, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
Though I disagree with showing the "province", in the intro. To avoid inconsistency (at least) among the Games (1954, 1978 & 1994) that had Canada as host? I've replaced the "country", with the "province". GoodDay ( talk) 05:01, 17 August 2022 (UTC)