The following is the list of squads that took place in the men's field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Group A Afghanistan The following players represented Afghanistan:

Abdul Kadir Nuristani Din Mohammad Nuristani Ghazi Salah-ud-Din Jahan Gulam Nuristani Bakhteyar Gulam Mangal Mohammad Amin Nuristani Najam Yahya Khan Nasrullah Totakhail Noor Ullah Nuristani Ramazan Nuristani Mohammad Anis Sherzai Ahmad Shah Abouwi

India The following players represented India:

Shankar Laxman Bakshish Singh Randhir Singh Gentle Leslie Claudius Amir Kumar Govind Perumal Charles Stephen Gurdev Singh Balbir Singh Sr. Udham Singh Raghbir Singh Bhola Ranganathan Francis Amit Singh Bakshi Hari Pal Kaushik Hardyal Singh Raghbir Lal Balkrishan Singh

Singapore The following players represented Singapore:

Arumugam Vijiaratnam Burdett Coutts Edwin Doraisamy Fred Fernandez Dollah Hamid Chai Hon Yam Michael Wright Osbert de Rozario Percy Pennefather Rudy Mosbergen Sinnadurai Vellupillai Vellupillai Devadas Bill Hay Ajit Singh Gill S. Jeyathurai Richard Schoon Roy Sharma

United States The following players represented the United States:

Newbold Black Henry Clifford Stan Harris James Jongeneel Gerrit Kruize Tjerk Leegstra Harry Marcoplos Kurt Orban John Rote Walter Stude Felix Ucko Kurt Ucko Ray Wittelsberger

Group B Australia The following players represented Australia:

Ian Dick Mel Pearce Gordon Pearce Eric Pearce Maurice Foley Ray Whiteside Brian Booth Glen Jobson Keith Leeson Kenneth Clarke Don Mecklem Kevin Carton Dennis Kemp Desmond Spackman Alan Barblett Geoff Bennett John Dwyer Louis Hailey

Great Britain The following players represented Great Britain:

David Archer (gk) (Polytechnic) Denys Carnill (Cheltenham) John Cockett (Cambridge University Wanderers) John Conroy (Mid Surrey) Geoffrey Cutter (Army) Colin Dale (Old Kingstonians} Howard Davis (North Staffs) Michael Doughty (Old Kingstonians) Neil Forster (Richmond) Steven Johnson (Lisnagarvey) Anthony Robinson (West of England Wanderers) Frederick Scott (Royal Air Force) John Strover (Poole) David Thomas (Hounslow) Colin Thompson (Royal Air Force) Luther Vye (gk) (Hampstead) Stanley Hoare (coach)

Kenya The following players represented Kenya:

Roland Frank Anthony Vaz Balbir Singh Sidhu Peter Dalgado Surjeet Singh Deol Tejinder Singh Rao Gursaran Singh Sehmi Tejparkash Singh Brar Reynold D'Souza Hardev Singh Kular Alu Mendonca Michael Pereira Bill Plenderleith Dudley Coulson

Malaya The following players represented Malaya:

Supaat Nadarajah Manikam Shanmuganathan Chuah Eng Cheng Philip Sankey Mike Shepherdson Gerry Toft Salam Devendran Chua Eng Kim Thomas Lawrence Aman Ullah Karim Sheikh Ali Hamzah Shamsuddin Peter van Huizen Freddy Vias Rajaratnam Selvanayagam Gian Singh Noel Arul

Group C Belgium The following players represented Belgium:

André Carbonnelle André Muschs Franz Lorette Jacques Vanderstappen Jean Dubois Jean-Jacques Enderle Jean Van Leer Jean-Pierre Rensburg Luc Decrop Roger Goossens Roger Paternoster Yvan Freedman

New Zealand The following players represented New Zealand:

Archie Currie Brian Johnston Bruce Turner David Goldsmith Guy McGregor Ivan Armstrong John Abrams Jack Tynan Murray Loudon Noel Hobson Phil Bygrave Reginald Johansson Bill Schaefer Keith Cumberpatch

Pakistan The following players represented Pakistan:

Zakir Hussain Munir Ahmed Dar Ghulam Rasool Anwar Ahmed Khan Qazi Massarrat Hussain Noor Alam Abdul Hamid Habibur Rehman Ahmed Naseer Bunda Motiullah Latif-ur Rehman Akhtar Hussain Habib Ali Kiddie Manzoor Hussain Atif

United Team of Germany The following players represented the United Team of Germany:

Alfred Lücker Helmut Nonn Günther Ullerich Günther Brennecke Werner Delmes Eberhard Ferstl Hugo Dollheiser Heinz Radzikowski Wolfgang Nonn Hugo Budinger Werner Rosenbaum

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