Albert Rowland
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| birth_place = Christchurch, New Zealand
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| death_place = Marne, France
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3-mile track walk champion (1907)
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Albert Edward Mackay Rowland (26 October 1885 – 23 July 1918) was a New Zealand athlete who competed in walking events. He competed for Australasia in two walking events at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/64788 |title=Albert Rowland |work=Olympedia |access-date=11 March 2021}}
Early life and family
Born in Christchurch on 26 October 1885,{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/albert-rowland-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418073252/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/albert-rowland-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Albert Rowland |date= |website=Sports-Reference |publisher= |accessdate=11 May 2017}} Rowland was the son of Edward Anthony Rowland and Anne Rowland (née Macdonald).{{CWGC|id=309485|name=Rowland, Albert Henry Mackey|access-date=11 May 2017}} He married Agnes Ludlow "Jo" Fraser on 28 October 1911 at Holy Trinity Church in the Christchurch suburb of Avonside,{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19111107.2.41 | title=Marriage | date=7 November 1911 | work=The Star | accessdate=11 May 2017 | page=3}} and they went on to have one daughter.
Athletics
A race walker, Rowland won both the 1-mile and 3-mile track walk titles at the New Zealand National Athletics Championships in 1907.{{cite web |url=http://www.anzrankings.org.nz/userfiles/file/National_Champions.pdf |title=National champions 1887–2016 |date=December 2016 |website= |publisher=Athletics New Zealand |accessdate=8 May 2017 | first=Stephen | last=Hollings}}
He represented Australasia at the 1908 Olympic Games in London. He finished fifth in the final of the 3500 metres walk behind teammate and fellow New Zealander, Harry Kerr, who won the bronze medal.{{cite web |url=https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/albert-rowland |title=Albert Rowland |year=2016 |website= |publisher=New Zealand Olympic Committee |access-date=11 May 2017}}{{cite web |url=https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/harry-kerr |title=Harry Kerr |year=2016 |website= |publisher=New Zealand Olympic Committee |access-date=11 May 2017}} He also competed in the 10-miles walk, finishing fifth in his heat and not progressing to the final.
Rowland finished second behind Ernest Webb in the 2 miles walk event at the British 1909 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002148/19090705/149/0008 |title=Athletics |work=Leicester Daily Post |date=5 July 1909 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=12 September 2024}}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000206/19090705/005/0002 |title=AAA Championships |work=Manchester Courier |date=5 July 1909 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=24 October 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=24 October 2024}}
World War I
Rowland was working on his own account as an optician in Wellington when he enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in July 1916. He travelled to Britain with the 21st Reinforcements on the Waitemata, arriving in Plymouth on 27 March 1917. On the voyage, Rowland was one of the editors of the onboard magazine, the Waitemata Wobbler.{{cite web |url=http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_library-catalogq40-33058 |title=Waitemata wobbler: N.Z. Exped. Forces, XXI Reinforcement |date= |website= |publisher=Auckland War Memorial Museum |accessdate=11 May 2017}} He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade on 30 April 1918. He was attached to the New Zealand Cyclist Battalion when he was killed in the Second Battle of the Marne on 23 July 1918. He was buried in the Marfaux British Cemetery.
See also
References
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External links
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Category:Athletes from Christchurch
Category:New Zealand male race walkers
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for Australasia
Category:New Zealand Army officers
Category:New Zealand military personnel killed in World War I