The list of roles he has held in the Royal British Legion in Kent cover two sides of A4, but the reason John Partridge originally joined the organisation – a concern for the welfare of ex-servicemen and women – is as vital to him today as it was more than 50 years ago.

In this week’s Friday Interview, Angela Cole talks to the man whose visits to see his First World War veteran father in Preston Hall Hospital, Aylesford as a young man sowed the seeds of a devotion to the charity which has lasted most of his life.