A British ice hockey gold medallist from the 1936 Winter Games has been honoured with a commemorative plaque ©Getty Images/Hulton Archive

A plaque has been unveiled in memory of one of the players from Great Britain's ice hockey team that won the gold medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. 

Archie Stinchcombe was part of the team that triumphed over reigning champions Canada at the Games in Germany.

Stinchcombe and his team-mates were presented with their medals by German leader Adolf Hitler.

The plaque has been placed on the house where he was born in 1912 in Cudworth, near Barnsley.

Stinchcombe died in 1994 aged 82.

David Swift, from the Cudworth Local History Society, said: "He was born at 282 Barnsley Road and his family moved to Canada when he was very young, just a few months old, but he is still a Cudworther to us."

A commemorative plaque has been unveiled in Barnsley to mark where Archie Stinchcombe, a member of Britain's gold medal winning ice hockey team at the 1936 Winter Olympic Games, has been unveiled ©Twitter
A commemorative plaque has been unveiled in Barnsley to mark where Archie Stinchcombe, a member of Britain's gold medal winning ice hockey team at the 1936 Winter Olympic Games, has been unveiled ©Twitter

Stinchcombe was one of a number of Canadian-trained players to appear for the British team in 1936.

Speaking in 1992, he said coaches in Canada "did not think it was right" but that ultimately it was a player's choice which country to represent.

During the 1936 medal presentation the team controversially gave the Nazi salute.

Explaining the decision, Stinchcombe said: "We decided to give the Hitler salute as a mark of respect to the German people.

"I said that if we were going to do it we should give it to both sides of the stadium so they would realise we were saluting the people not Hitler and that's what we did."

He went on to captain the British side in the 1948 Olympics in St. Moritz and play for and manage the Nottingham Panthers.