[2] In 1932 he was an Assistant coach of the St Joseph's College Hunters Hill first VIII in their victory in that year's GPS Head of the River.

[7] It was a co-operative venture between the NSW and the Victorian Rowing Associations, there being no Australian governing body at the time.

Fraser, Ross-Soden and the Leichhardt man Henry Hauenstein joined the Sydney Club to legitimise the entry.

Fitzhardinge was the stroke at Henley when the eight progressed through their match races and beat the Leander Club in the final to take the 1912 Grand Challenge Cup.

They beat a Swedish crew in the first round[10] then in the quarter-final they were knocked-out by same Leander eight they'd triumphed over at Henley.