Herbert Currer

Herbert Oswald Currer, born on 11 June 1916 in Pretoria, was a South African international lawn bowler who also worked as a professional footballer. He won a gold medal in the rinks, or fours, event at the 1950 British Empire Games, bowling with Alfred Blumberg, Harry Atkinson and Norman Snowy Walker, and in 1952 he took the singles and two rinks titles at the South African national championships in Port Elizabeth for the Pretoria West Bowls Club. Known as Herb, he had earlier played right-half and was signed by Aberdeen from Arcadia Shepherds in 1936, arriving in Scotland in 1937, before returning to South Africa in 1940, where he worked as an engineer and took up bowls.