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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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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 28 Entries

ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
13096	ALLEN, Ernest John	1894	WAL, GLA, Pontypridd	Aug 1909 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home
15290	ASHWORTH, William John	1880	WAL, GLA, Swansea	Jul 1892 : Mongolian	CAN	Barnardos
16315	BENTALL, Lila Rosanna	1874	WAL, GLA, Merthyr Tydfil	Jul 1886 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
4182	BERRYMAN, Jonas Francis	1896	WAL, GLA, Abercanaid	Apr 1910 : Corsican	CAN	Waifs & Strays
16711	BLEWITT, Annie	1898	WAL, GLA, Ynyshir	Oct 1911 : Corinthian	CAN	Barnardos
12971	BROOKLYN, Edith	1898	WAL, GLA, Bridgend	Jul 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
5443	CLARIDGE, Horace	1911	WAL, GLA, Pontypridd	May 1922 : Orsova	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
16363	COLE, Sidney John	1914	WAL, GLA, Swansea	Jun 1929 : Ascania	CAN	British Immigration and Colonisation Association
25626	CUNDY, George William	1911	WAL, GLA, Swansea	Feb 1924 : Euripides	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
4423	DEACON, Alice	1887	WAL, GLA, Treharris	May 1897 : State of California	CAN	Waifs & Strays
4424	DEACON, Jane	1885	WAL, GLA, Pontymail	Oct 1896 : Mongolian	CAN	Waifs & Strays
26431	HOLT, Frederick Howard	1906	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	Jul 1913 : Belgic	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26955	KEARLE, Albert Gordon	1925	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	Nov 1938 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26957	LLEWELLYN, Albert William	1931	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	Nov 1938 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26959	MART, Audrey Sybil	1926	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	Nov 1938 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
4580	MORGAN, Gertrude D.	1895	WAL, GLA, Ystradyfodwg	Mar 1907 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
26358	O'CONNELL, Mary	1919	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	Aug 1932 : Oronsay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26357	O'CONNELL, Patricia	1921	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	Aug 1932 : Oronsay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
23489	PARR, James Phillip	1893	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	Mar 1910 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
11484	PRANCE, Bert	1915	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	Apr 1930 : Letitia	CAN	Cossar (George Carter)
23322	REES, Aneurin John	1885	WAL, GLA, Aberavon	Jul 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
26961	RICHARDSON, Cyril	1925	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	Nov 1938 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26962	RICHARDSON, Vera Elizabeth	1930	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	Nov 1938 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26440	ROGERS, Frank	1904	WAL, GLA, Swansea	Jul 1913 : Belgic	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26963	SCOTT, Priscilla	1926	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	Nov 1938 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
11590	THOMAS, George Llewellyn	1909	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos	Woodsblack
12655	TUCKER, Cyril Clyde	1902	WAL, GLA, Bridgend	Mar 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
2980	WHISTLER, Dorothy Elizabeth	1895	WAL, GLA, Cardiff	May 1911 : Victorian	CAN	Waifs & Strays
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 28 Entries

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