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Hugh Andrews

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Hugh Simpson Andrews was a Welsh international lawn bowler, born in 1924, who won a bronze medal in the triples at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing. He was capped 27 times by Wales between 1960 and 1972 and captained the national side in 1970. Bowling for the Brynhyfryd Bowls Club, he won the 1971 fours title and finished runner-up in the pairs in 1972 at the Welsh National Bowls Championships. By trade he was a civil servant, and he took up bowls after his discharge from the Royal Air Force in 1947. He died in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, in 2011 at the age of 87.

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1924 1
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    Hugh Simpson Andrews (26 January 1924
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    was a Welsh international lawn bowler
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    was a Welsh international lawn bowler
  • Competed In: World Bowls Championships, Bowls career, 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship
    Andrews won a bronze medal in the triples at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.
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