Keith Victor Holman, MBE (11 September 1927 – 11 October 2011) was an Australian Rugby League footballer, a national and state representative Halfback whose club career was played with Western Suburbs between 1949 and 1961.
In his earliest years he was raised in a shanty at Yarra Bay in Sydney by a man named Holman who may have been his father.
He was taken in by a local family named Schofield who enabled him to be schooled by the De La Salle Brothers at Surry Hills.
He was a chef with 82 Wing, 23 Squadron and was posted to bases in Ipswich, Queensland and later after the Japanese surrender, at Morakai and Balikpapan in Borneo.
The Squadron flew B-24 Liberators in a transport role, flying ex-Prisoners of War and other Australian personnel back to Australia.
An approach to Manly was also unsuccessful so he headed to Dubbo and befriended former Wests Five-eighth Eric Bennett.
[6] Holman was the Australian selectors preferred halfback choice and regular in Test sides and World Cup squads from 1950 to 1958.
[15] Also in 2008 the Western Suburbs Magpies celebrated their centenary by inducting six inaugural members into the club's Hall of Fame.