Scrapbook of Colonel (Hubert) Bruce Logan
Bruce Logan (1886 - 1965) was born in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England and was a renowned sportman, primarily for rowing but also for boxing and rugby.
Colonel Hubert Bruce Logan, Olympic Games veteran and President of Stevenage Pipe Band, died on Wednesday. He was 80.
Col. Logan, who was born in Cambridge, was an outstanding athlete in his younger days. He represented Britain five times at the Olympic Games, twice at rowing, twice at boxing and once at fencing, and won two silver medals at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912.
In 1911 he won the Scottish Amateur Boxing Association heavyweight championship, and in 1915 was Western Command boxing champion.
Col. Logan was also an enthusiastic rowing man and belonged to the Thames and Leander Rowing Clubs. His record for the double skulls stood for 30 years.
He came to Stevenage in 1940, when he was Welfare Officer for the troops in Hertfordshire. His London house was bombed, so he stayed on at the Cromwell Hotel. It was then that he met Mrs. Helen Inns, another well-known personality who was running the “Old Castle Canteen” at the time, on the site of the Westminster Bank in High-street.
It was at Mrs. Inn’s house that Col. Logan died. She had been looking after him for the last two years since he was involved in a road accident in London when he broke a leg.
The colonel was a familiar figure in Stevenage due to his associations with the Pipe Band and became their first President. He was also President of Stevenage Boxing Club for ten years.
The funeral service will be held at St. Nicholas’ Church, Stevenage, on Monday, at 2 p.m. followed by cremation at Golders Green at 3.20 p.m.
MEMBERS of Stevenage Pipe Band accompanied the coffin as it was carried into St. Nicholas’s Church, Stevenage, on Monday for the funeral of Colonel Hubert Bruce Logan, the band’s president and a well-known figure in the town.
Led by Pipe Major A. Pirie, they played “Flowers of the Forest” as the procession entered the church.
At the end of the service, conducted by the Rec. C. W. Gonin, Drum Major Bob Ashbridge sounded the Last Post and Reveille, and the band played the lament, “Death of the Chief”. About 50 people were at the service.
At the cremation service which followed at Golders Green, close associates and members of the family attended, as well as members of the band, who played again.
