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Horace Craske

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ65557107 ↗
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Horace Mervin Craske (born 1910 - date of death unknown) was a male athlete who competed for England at the British Empire Games.

Biography

Craske represented England at the 1934 British Empire Games in London, where he competed in the 1 mile event.

Craske represented the South London Harriers.

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This entry incorporates text from “Horace Craske” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.