Frank Reinier
Duminy
Male
Canada
0000-00-00
, South Africa
1967-09-28
Ottawa, Canada
September 29, 1967
The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, · Page 9
Sportsman, Frank Duminy Dies at 85 Francois (Frank) Duminy, who in his long and colorful life filled the role of sportsman, soldier and advertising man, died Thursday at the age of SS. Born in South Africa, Mr. Juminy was one of. The few remaining living veterans of the Boer War, an honor which, in his case was doubly distinctive since he fought on the side of the Boers. He was taken captive by the British in 1901 while serving as chief scout with Boer General De Wet. After three .years of imprisonment in Ceylon he returned to South Africa and then travelled the world until coming to Ottawa in 1910. Mr. Duminy was very active irT sports during this period and was. A member of the Ottawa Rowing Club crew which won the Dickson Cup in 1911 and a player with the Ottawa Football Club. He was -also a tennis player of note and in 1911 won the Ontario Amateur Tennis At the outbreak of the First World War he enlisted end went overseas with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, being' attached to the British -Army as a small arms instructor at Al der-shot and later seeing action in France. He attained the rank of captain. Returning to Canada in 1920. Mr. Duminy began working with the national advertising department of The Ottawa Journal where he remained for 38 years until retiring in 1958. Active, in his. church, he was an elder of Knox Presbyterian Church and was a former Sun day School superintendent at St. Gile's Presbyterian. Mr. Duminy, who was married in 1913 to the former Kathleen Gamble, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. Robert Gamble of Wakefield, P.Q. leaves his wife, a son and two daughters, all Ottawa residents.
1905 - 1911
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5
3
Round 1
Frank Reinier Duminy 1 *
Mr. Ertwhistle
3-6
6-3
6-0
Quarterfinals
Frank Reinier Duminy 1 *
Victor Ormond Woodland
?
Semifinals
Bernard Schwengers 1 *
Frank Reinier Duminy
10-8
6-3
Round 1
Frank Reinier Duminy 1 *
W.G. Byron
6-4
6-4
4-6
5-7
7-5
Round 2
William Bradney Pershouse 1 *
Frank Reinier Duminy
4-6
6-8
6-1
6-3
6-2