President Trevor Flower said while the club has up to 100 members, only a few of those are directly involved.

"We all worry about what is going to happen down the road," Mr Flower said.

"We lose members all the time and we are not getting replacements.

"Without any service things going on it makes it even harder."

Mr Flower has been president since 2003 and was vice- president prior to that for six years.

He joined the club after serving in the Citizen Military Forces during the Vietnam War era in 1962-1975.

"We had a choice to sign up to a CMF and do seven years, or serve in Vietnam for two ... If our numbers came up we still had to serve," Mr Flower said.

"The CMF was pretty big back then, a lot of people didn't want to take the chance to go off ... we didn't go anywhere (but) if the need had come we would have gone."

Mr Flower said there were up to 40 people from the region in the CMF and every Tuesday night the group would train at the drill hall, which is now where Giant Steps is situated.

He said once a year a 16-day camp would be held, one of which was spent on Cape Barren Island.

Members of the club include both those who have served overseas, who belong to a sub- branch, and those belonging to the service club.

Mr Flower said in today's times, "service" included police, ambulance personnel and nurses.

The club building on West Church Street, Deloraine, was officially opened on September 1, 1951.

Returned soldiers in the region saw a need to provide a space where they could socialise and hold meetings and various community functions.

Six members, WM Hohns, JW Atkins, HS Broomby, K Waller, R Griffen and D Furmage formed the club and held various fund-raising events to add to the building fund which saw the building's eventual construction.