Christopher Hammersley went to Christ Church, Oxford, and won a fencing Blue in 1924. A member of the London Fencing Club (LFC), he won the 1936 British Foil Championship, beating Birmingham Fencing Club’s Denis Pearce into second place. Both men went on to compete at the Berlin Olympics. Hammersley continued fencing for the LFC up to the outbreak of World War II. During the War he served in the Royal Navy. An investment advisor by professional, he went to live and work in the British Virgin Islands in the early-1960s as Chairman of the Public Service Commission for the Territory. He was honoured with the MBE in the 1964 New Year’s Honours’ list.
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