He was RAF boxing champion for five years, while one of his brothers was Royal Navy champion and another Army champion. McTaggart won the Olympic lightweight gold medal in Melbourne in 1956 and ...
A RAF boxer who has trained in Bicester is set ... Axe teamed up with Bicester’s Carl Ellis to train at Ellis’s boxing gym. Since last November he’s been managed by Jamie Sheldon at One ...
Colin Hart was born to be a boxing writer. Born into a pre-war Hebrew ... once he had served two years of National Service as an RAF wireless operate. He started work in newspapers as 'the office ...
RYAN Jones of Worcester City Amateur Boxing Club triumphed by unanimous decision in a boxing show at RAF Shawbury. The 19-year-old boxer won every round over RAF Elite's Jaydon Johnson ...
Born in Dens Road, Dundee in 1935, McTaggart was the third youngest of 18 children. Corporal Dick McTaggart was working as a cook in the RAF when his talent for boxing led to the Melbourne Olympic ...
Corporal Dick McTaggart was working as a cook in the RAF when his talent for boxing led to the Melbourne Olympic Games of 1956. Getty Images McTaggart, pictured here in 2016, became a boxing coach ...