Thirty-six-year-old Bill Hirons was the oldest member of the City of London Police team that won the tug-of-war gold medal at the 1908 Games. Like the other members of the team, he was a member of the City of London Police. Hirons later lived in Oxfordshire and often refereed tug-of-war contests, including an interesting one between English and Irish nurses at a local hospital at Banbury in 1933.
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