- Frederick Holbourn
Frederick William Holbourn (
July 16 ,1896 - 1967) was a totally disabled war pensioner who worked to achieve justice for warpension ers in theUnited Kingdom in the years followingWorld War I .Holbourn was educated at Gravesend Elementary School, married Jennie Ann Jefferson, and had one son, Jack Holbourn.
ervice
*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 — ChairmanSt Dunstan 's Flag DayHe 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.
External links
* [http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/ The British Legion]
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