Amy Gentry
Toronto Daily Star, September 24 1932
Amy Gentry (1903-1976) started rowing competitively when she was six years old. She was the British single sculls champion in 1932, 1933, and 1934 before retiring undefeated.
During the Second World War, Ms. Gentry worked as a secretary for English inventor Barnes Wallis, who developed a bomb that would bounce through the water and attack German dams. When he launched wooden test models of the bomb on the lake on the Silvermere estate, Ms. Gentry would row out to retrieve them.
In 1969, she received the Order of the British Empire for services to rowing.
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