 Later functions were held at the Bondi Pavilion and then at a hotel at Bondi Junction.Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club had humble beginnings and if not for men like Dick Dunn and his fellow directors, like Bob Stuart and others, the "Roosters" or boys from Bondi as they are now known may never have had a club to celebrate their victories.Dunn was also a sergeant in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) stationed firstly at Scheyville NSW as a searchlights operator and later in the Transport Corps near Newcastle.