A Hounslow born journalist has been awarded a British Empire Medal as part of the Queen's 90th Birthday Honours for his services to hockey.
Pat Rowley has been covering hockey and sports since the age of 14 when he persuaded the editor of the Middlesex Chronicle to let him write about the 1948 Olympics from a schoolboy's perspective.
Since then Mr Rowley has covered 10 Olympics and is the only man to have covered both the 1948 and 2012 London Olympics.
His original passion was athletics, but hockey is now his number one sport, having played for the now-defunct Hounslow Hockey Club when they were one of the best in England.
Mr Rowley joined the Guardian two years after he started with the Middlesex Chronicle and has gone on to cover hockey for nearly every national paper since, and currently covers Hockey for the Sunday Express.
He joins a host of other names from west London who have been honoured as part of the Queen's 90th Birthday Honours list.
