James Edward Poulton was born in 1905 in Johannesburg, then in the Transvaal Colony, and competed as a lawn bowls international for Fiji. His family moved to Suva in Fiji when he was a child, and in 1931 he married Gladys Palmer there. At the 1950 British Empire Games, held in Auckland and now known as the Commonwealth Games, he won the bronze medal in the pairs event with Leslie Brown. The source gives no date of death for him.
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James Edward Poulton (1905-date of death unknown), was a Transavval Colony born, Fijian lawn bowls international who competed in the 1950 British Empire Games.
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James Edward Poulton (1905-date of death unknown), was a Transavval Colony born, Fijian lawn bowls international who competed in the 1950 British Empire Games.
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At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the bronze medal in the pairs event with Leslie Brown.
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