Nelson Margetts

Nelson Emery Margetts (May 27, 1879 to April 17, 1932) was an American polo player and United States Army officer who won a bronze medal in the polo tournament at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Born and raised in Utah, he enlisted in the army on May 9, 1898, and served with the Utah Light Artillery in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. He accepted a commission in the Artillery Corps in 1902 and, during World War I, served on General John J. Pershing's staff in France. After taking part in the 1920 Olympics he was given command of the 79th Field Artillery Regiment at Camp Meade, graduated from the Army War College in 1924, and in December 1929 was assigned as a military attache in China. He died at the Letterman General Hospital at the Presidio of San Francisco and was buried at the San Francisco National Cemetery.