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« on: Friday 24 April 09 12:06 BST (UK) »
Hi
Bruce was British,British Empire and European Heavy Weight Boxing Champion 1945-50. He was the Empires first post war Heavy Weight Champion
Record 35 wins 4 Defeats. Known as the boxer with the glass jaw.He was 6.0 tall.
He retired from Boxing and moved to the Licensed trade and became Landlord of the Tumbler, in Edlington.
He died at the age of 76 yrs old in 1997
Bruce Woodcock is also my cousin...he is the decendant of my 4 x great grandparents William Woodcock 1780 and Susannah Allwood 1782
He was born in Doncaster 18/01/1921.His parents were Samuel Woodcock 1897 and Hilda Long c1900.He worked for the railway before becomming a boxer and he married Nora Speight and they had 2 children.