Sports trainer.
Born at St. John’s, Newfoundland on 7 June 1927 to Edith Lidstone (1900-1977) and Edgar Lancelot Badcock (1902-1976), he began his adult life with service in the Merchant Navy. He saw action in the Second World War on Atlantic convoys and subsequently joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. In 1947, he married Josephine Marie Kachurowski (1925-1992), whom he met on a posting to Whitehorse, Yukon before serving in the Korean War. They went on to have three children.
After training as a physiotherapist, he was the head sports therapist at Royal Military College in Kingston for seven years. On his retirement from the army, Chuck joined the Winnipeg Blue Bombers football team as trainer (1970-1980) and spent a further 11 years with the Winnipeg Jets hockey team. He was highly regarded as a sports therapist across Canada and as such was a trainer for the Winter Games in Saskatchewan, the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, and the chosen therapist for several National Hockey League All-Star games. He helped establish the Canadian Athletic Therapists’ Association in 1966 and was its long-serving Secretary-Treasurer. In recognition of his lifelong contribution to sport, he was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. A scholarship in his name was established at the University of Winnipeg’s Kinesiology Department.
He died at Winnipeg on 14 May 2007 and was buried in Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 19 May 2007.
Charles William Badcock, Legge Family Tree, Ancestry.
Charles Badcock Athletic Therapy Award, University of Winnipeg.
Charles W. “Chuck” Badcock, FindAGrave.
This page was prepared by Lois Braun.
Page revised: 5 August 2024
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