Lillian Board was one of the greatest female athletes of her generation, despite a career significantly curtailed by her death from cancer. She received an MBE in the Honours' List at the start of 1970.
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Lillian Board – The Golden Girl
Lillian Board was one of the greatest female athletes of her generation, despite a career significantly curtailed by her death from cancer. She received an MBE in the Honours' List at the start of 1970. By Boxing Day that year she was dead, just 13 days after her 22nd birthday.
