Old photograph of golfers from Fanlingerers at Kilspindie Golf Club by Aberlady, East Lothian, Scotland. The Fanlingerers was a charitable golf association of members and friends of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club founded in St. Andrews in 1951 by the late Bob Young and his colleague Alex Mackenzie for the purpose of raising funds for the Scottish War Blinded through golf and good fellowship and in memory of happy days in Hong Kong and Fanling. Bob was Captain of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club in 1940 and his successor in 1941 was Alex who was subsequently blinded in the defence of Hong Kong while leading a patrol of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots against a Japanese occupied police post. He was an all round sportsman and after rehabilitation at the Scottish National Institution for War Blinded at Lindburn served for twenty years as Highlands Appeals Officer for that institution. He was elected first Taipan of the Fanlingerers in 1952 and it was a tribute to him and to those who suffered a similar affliction that the association was founded.
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