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Jim Halliday
James "Jim" Halliday (19 January 1918- 6 June 2007) was born in Bolton, Lancashire. He started weight training as teen but before he could compete at the highest levels World War II broke out and Jim joined the Army to serve his country. He defended the evacuation of Dunkirk before going on to serve in Singapore. He was there when Singapore was captured by the Japanese and he became a POW. He spent three years in forced labour on the Burmese railway under some of the harshest conditions and treatment. When the war ended and he returned to Britain, he weighed just six stone.
Determined to rebuild his strength he recommenced his training, and represented Britain at the 1948 London Olympic games, taking the Bronze medal. He went on to win gold at the British Empire games (what is now the Commonwealth games) in Auckland in 1950 and Vancouver in 1954. In 1950 Jim published his book Olympic Weightlifting and Body Building for all with a forward provided by none other than WA Pullum.
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