Frederick Holbourn - Service

Service

• 1919, 1920 — management committee of the Borough league
• 1921, 1923 — Vice-Chairman of "Gravesend Rovers FC."
• 1918, 1921 — Management Committee Services Rendered Club and Discharged Soldiers and Sailors Association, Sports Secretary
• 1921-32 — Sports, Finance and Ways and Means Committee
• 1921-29 — British Legion Relief Fund Committee
• 1925-32 — United Services Fund representative
• 1926 — Vice Chairman of British Legion
• 1924-26 — Chairman British Legion Relief Fund
  • 1926-27 — Hon. Sec., 1922-23 — Vice Chairman
• 1924, 1932 — Poppy Day Committee member (Chairman 1924-1926)
• 1924-25 — Chairman St Dunstan's Flag Day

He was also the Hon. Secretary to the Benevolent Advisory Committee, 1925~28; Voluntary War Pensions worker attached to Medway Boroughs Pensions Committee 1925~33; a member of Medway Boroughs Pensions Committee, 1929/30; Chairman, of the British Legion employment Committee; and secretary to the British Legion War Orphans; Branch Assistant Sec., 1920~23 and 1931; Branch Treasurer 1931/32; British Legion and United Services Fund Benevolent Committee, and Secretary to the British Legion Turf Cricket Club 1928/29.

He went on to assist in the founding of the Tuberculosis Aftercare Committee; and became Hon. Sec. of Groups 10 and 9 of the British Legion; Honorary Secretary for the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen’s Families Association for Gravesend; and delegate to Kent Conferences of the British Legion.

He died in 1967 in hospital in Gravesend, having lived at Oak Road for much of his life.