Rex Woods (athlete)

Reginald ('Rex') Salisbury Woods[1] MD, FRCS, (15 October 1891[2] – 21 September 1986) was a British track and field athlete, who represented Great Britain in three Olympic Games.

[4] In 1918, he married Irene Charlotte, daughter of Thomas Pickering, of Tyneholme, Newcastle, and The Hill House, Gilsland, Cumberland.

[5][6] Their son, Thomas Pickering Salisbury Woods, M.B.E., of Manor Court, Cambridge, was a Major in the Royal Artillery.

Woods first represented Britain at the shot put at the Olympic Games whilst president of the Cambridge University Athletic Club.

He became the National shot put champion, after winning the AAA Championships title in 1924 and 1926[8] and represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games in 1924 and 1928.

He again served in the RAMC during the Second World War at the rank of major and surgeon specialist to the East African Command.