 On Pearson's death in 1921, the chairmanship fell to Ian Fraser, who had been placed in charge of the charity's after-care activities by Pearson, providing assistance and social events such as reunion meetings for the blinded veterans after they had left the hostel in Regent's Park.Fraser had served during the First World War in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and was blinded by a bullet on the Somme.Having become generally known by the name of the building in which it was based, the organisation then formally changed its name to St Dunstan's in 1923.