Walter Henry
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Name: Walter Henry
Alias: Wee Walter
Birth Name: John Walter Henry
Hometown: Orillia, Ontario, Canada
Birthplace: Orillia, Ontario, Canada
Amateur Boxer: Record
Reportedly had an amateur career of 403 bouts, losing 18
9 time Canadian Flyweight Champion
Won 20 Ontario titles
Represented Canada in the British Empire Games (1958)
Won the Irish Senior Flyweight Championship (1962)
Boxed in the Olympics in Tokyo in 1964
First Canadian ever to win a medal in boxing at the Pan-American Games held in Winnipeg (1967)
Boxing judge in the 1976 Olympics
Inducted into the Orillia Hall of Fame in 1972
Inducted into the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame in 1974