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Record #26431

Name :: : Frederick Howard HOLT (1906 - 1965)
Father: : William HOLT
Mother: : Lavinia HANCOCK

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 28 Jan 1906 Notes : Source: Fairbridge Kids
Marriage (1): : 1952 Spouse/Notes : Margaret HARRIS (East Coolgardie district, reg 135)
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 1965 Notes : Source: WA BDM

Abode (1) : Place of BirthWales, Glamorgan, Cardiff

Birth reg Mar qtr 1906, 11a 517

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialAustralia, Western Australia

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : Jul 1913
Country: : Australia
Ship: : Belgic
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Fairbridge Homes

NotesFrederick (Fred) was placed at Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, Western Australia. He was one of a party of 22 orphaned boys aged under 12 sent to Australia under the auspices of the Child Emigration Society, organised by Rhodes scholars at Oxford (Source: NLA Trove Newspapers).

He served in WWII and was a POW:
HOLT FREDERICK HOWARD : Service Number - WX2207 : Date of birth - 29 Jan 1908 : Place of birth - S WALES ENGLAND : Place of enlistment - NORTHAM WA : Next of Kin – JOHNS

He died in 1965 aged 59 and was buried in Albany WA.

This Tribute was published by the Albany RSL in 1965:
FREDERICK HOWARD HOLT
Frederick Howard Holt of South Stirling, who died at the age of 59 and was buried in Albany this week, liked to say he was an ordinary man. He was wrong.
The death of this farmer, gold miner, old soldier and former prisoner of war, left his many friends believing they were lesser people in a lesser land because of his passing.
History may not place his name very high on the list of great Australians, his name was one for the warm hearts of men, not books.
He was a war service farmer, not landed gentry. He was a volunteer private in the 2/11th Battalion, AIF, not a general. And his capture in Crete and four years as a prisoner of the Germans was never dramatized in print or film.
AUSTRALIAN LEGEND
Physically, he was a small man, but in character he was part of the fabric of the Australian legend.
Fred – he rarely answered to “Frederick” – was born in England and shipped out to Western Australia as a seven-year-old Fairbridge Farm boy.
He grew to tough manhood working for tucker and keep around the Bruce Rock and Merredin farming areas, moving on in the 1930s to the goldfields.
They called him the “Coolgardie Pom”, but a wide grin, the yarns he told, his capacity for work, for beer and good humour, as well as a wonderful ability to make and keep friends, made him more of an Australian than any bush ballad hero.
PRISONER OF WAR
An early volunteer at the outbreak of war, Fred and other Goldfielders fought in Libya, Greece and finally Crete.
With them he was taken prisoner and sent to a camp in Germy, but neither he nor the Germans came to like the idea! With his close friends Clarrie Phillippson, who was a good footballer and lived to become this year’s vice-president of the Albany RSL, and George “Pasha” Prestige of Morley Park, Fred was an utter failure as a model prisoner.
Germany decided that his energies were better spent working 12 and 15 hour days as a forced labourer in a Polish coal mine.
...
Home again to become an underground shift boss at Coolgardie, Fred Holt married a slim young school teacher, eventually leaving the Goldfields to take up War Service land at South Stirlings.
He settled down – a small chunky man with a big brown face he once described as “like an old potato”, developing his farm and a family of eight children, the oldest of whom joined the regular army only last week.
Fred loved his children, his wife, his land and his friends – his last hours included an army reunion in Perth – and the measure of his love was reflected in the faces of his mourners last Tuesday.
Friends and neighbours at the graveside of Fred Holt included more than 100 ex-servicemen – the highest number ever to attend a funeral at Albany – and among them were old comrades Philippson and Prestige.
But it was no mere duty call...the tears in their eyes were very real.

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Last Updated : 2016-06-25 04:43:07 / mollipops1

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3062	ABEL, Abraham	1892	WAL, , Newport	Apr 1908 : Kensington	CAN	Unknown
6256	ADDIS, Herbert	1897	WAL, MON, Newport	Jul 1909 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
13096	ALLEN, Ernest John	1894	WAL, GLA, Pontypridd	Aug 1909 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home
13834	ANTWIS, Robert Luchesi	1891	WAL, PEM, Haverfordwest	Mar 1903 : Canada	CAN	Barnardos
9233	ANTWIS, Sidney Walter John	1893	WAL, PEM, Pembroke Dock	Mar 1903 : Canada	CAN	Barnardos
15290	ASHWORTH, William John	1880	WAL, GLA, Swansea	Jul 1892 : Mongolian	CAN	Barnardos
10956	BARTLETT, Lydia M	1878	WAL, FLN, Holywell	May 1888 : Sardinian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
9979	BASSETT, Gwendoline	1894	WAL,	Oct 1902 : Colonian	CAN	Barnardos
10626	BENBOW, Alfred	1914	WAL, , Forden	Apr 1929 : Duchess of York	CAN	Barnardos	CyraL
16315	BENTALL, Lila Rosanna	1874	WAL, GLA, Merthyr Tydfil	Jul 1886 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
4181	BERRYMAN, Hannah Maria	1891	WAL, MON, Pontypool	Sep 1907 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
4182	BERRYMAN, Jonas Francis	1896	WAL, GLA, Abercanaid	Apr 1910 : Corsican	CAN	Waifs & Strays
4183	BERRYMAN, May Harriet	1899	WAL, MON, Pontypool	May 1911 : Victorian	CAN	Waifs & Strays
5078	BIRKENHEAD, Joseph	1910	WAL, , Hazel Beach	Aug 1926 : Montrose	CAN	Barnardos
16711	BLEWITT, Annie	1898	WAL, GLA, Ynyshir	Oct 1911 : Corinthian	CAN	Barnardos
16596	BOOTH, Annie May	1892	WAL, MON, Abergavenny	Oct 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
6595	BOURNE, Albert	1911	WAL, , Merthyr Tydfil	Jul 1927 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
6596	BOURNE, William	1913	WAL, , Aberdare	Jul 1927 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
12699	BOWEN, Charles	1878	WAL, DEN, Wrexham	Mar 1892 : Carthaginian	CAN	Barnardos
11829	BRANNON, Sarah	1896	WAL, , Wrexham	Jul 1907 : Tunisian	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
10625	BRIDGEHOUSE, William	1913	WAL,	Apr 1929 : Duchess of York	CAN	Barnardos
13440	BRIDGES, James	1873	WAL, MON, Newport	Apr 1886 : Dominion	CAN	Board of Guardians (Various)
12972	BROOKLYN, David Richard	1892	WAL,	Jul 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
12971	BROOKLYN, Edith	1898	WAL, GLA, Bridgend	Jul 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
9138	BROWN, Herbert James	1892	WAL, , Newport	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
14693	BUDNER, Bessie	1907	WAL,	Mar 1920 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
16584	BUTCHER, Gladys Ruby	1894	WAL, MON, Newport	Aug 1906 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
16583	BUTCHER, Milicent Florence	1901	WAL, MON, Newport	Jun 1912 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
8071	BUTLER, Roy	1916	WAL, , Colwyn Bay	Mar 1932 : Montclare	CAN	YMCA
7266	CAHILL, Charles	1913	WAL, , Ebbw Vale	Sep 1929 : Duchess of Atholl	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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