Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookrs, and left two sons and seven daus.: Duncan Menzies, _b._ 15 April, 1894; Alexander Redmond Hugh, _b._ 25 Jan. 1908; Elizabeth Sibell, _b._ 9 June, 1896; Mary Millicent, _b._ 14 March, 1898; Muriel Jess, _b._ 26 June, 1900; Alexandra Dorothy, _b._ 1 Jan. 1903; Eleanor Beatrice Stewart, _b._ 31 Dec. 1905; Margaret Iris, _b._ 30 July, 1910; and Frances Alice Murray, _b._ 10 Nov. 1912. Col. Fraser's elder _s._ Menzies obtained a commission in the Royal Engineers (S.R.) at the outbreak of the war and is now (1916) Lieut. in the 75th Field Company R.E. attd. to the Guards Division in France. [Illustration: =Alexander Fraser.=] =FRASER, DONALD ALEXANDER=, Trooper, No. 862, 1st Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of the late William Fraser, by his wife, Mary (Loloma, Barry Street, Neutral Bay, Sydney, N.S.W.), dau. of John Oswald, of Melbourne, Victoria; _b._ Louth River, Darling, New South Wales, 15 Feb. 1889; educ. Scotch College, Melbourne; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 12 Jan. 1915, left Australia with the fourth reinforcements and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 7 Aug. 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Donald Alexander Fraser.=] =FRASER, GEORGE JAMES=, Private, No. 2276, 4th Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of James Fraser, of 3, Reeves Place, Hoxton, N., Labourer, by his wife, Flora, dau. of William Nixon; _b._ Bethnal Green, 13 Dec. 1892; volunteered following the outbreak of war and joined the 4th London Regt., 22 Aug. 1914; went to France, 5 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 27 April, 1915; _unm._ =FRASER, THE HON. HUGH JOSEPH=, M.V.O., Major, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, 2nd _s._ of the late Simon, 15th Lord Lovat, by his wife, Alice Mary (Beaufort Castle, Beauly), dau. of Thomas Weld Blundell, of Ince Blundell; _b._ Beauly, co. Inverness, 6 July, 1874; educ. Fort Augustus Abbey School. Inverness-shire; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the Scots Guards, 12 Dec. 1894, promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. 1897, Capt. 16 March, 1901, and Major 12 June, 1907, and served in the South African War, 1900-2; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Biddulphsberg and Wittenbergen (1-29 July), also in those there and in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1901 to 31 May, 1902, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], and received the Queen's medal with three clasps and the King's medal with two clasps; was Adjutant in Lovat's Scouts (Imperial Yeomanry) from 1 April, 1903 to 31 July, 1907, and Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy of India from Nov. 1910 to April, 1913. On the outbreak of war with Germany he went to the Front with the 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, which formed part of the 7th Division, and was killed in action in the 1st Battle of Ypres, 27 Oct. 1914; _unm._ He was made a M.V.O. (4th Class) 1912. [Illustration: =The Hon. Hugh J. Fraser.=] =FRASER, JAMES HOWIE=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, only _s._ of Edward Cleather Fraser, C.M.G., Member of the Council of Government, Mauritius, and a Partner in the firm of Ireland, Fraser & Co., of Port Louis, by his wife, Mary Josephine, dau. of the late Thomas Howie, and gdson. of the late James Fraser, of Newfield, Blackheath Park; _b._ Blackheath, London, 4 April, 1888; educ. Summerfields, near Oxford, Rugby and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, out of which he passed first in Summer Term 1907, with prizes for Tactics and Military Engineering; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Gordon Highlanders, 9 Oct. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 20 March, 1909; joined the 2nd Battn. in India, and served with it there and in Egypt, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action 30 Oct. 1914, in the attack on Zillebeke Farm House. He was _unm._ and was buried at Klein Zillebeke. Lieut. Fraser was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. [Illustration: =James Howie Fraser.=] =FRASER, JAMES O'NEILL=, Private, No. 1341, 5th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of Evan Fraser, of 4, Caledonian Place, Newton, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Railway Signalman, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John O'Neill; _b._ Beith, co. Ayr, 6 June, 1894; educ. Hallside School, Cambuslang, and after being for some time a clerk with the Caledonian Railway Co., emigrated to Australia in April, 1914, to take up farming. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Australian Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt, 1 Feb. 1915; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25-26 April, 1915, and was killed on the latter day; _unm._ =FRASER, LACHLAN HENRY VEITCH=, Lieut., 4th Battn. The Middlesex Regt., yst. _s._ of Major Francis Fraser, of Tornaveen, co. Aberdeen, by his wife, Alexia Mary Beatrice de Dombal, dau. of Capt. John Henderson MacDonald, of Caskieben, co. Aberdeen, 78th Highlanders; _b._ Tornaveen, 22 April, 1894; educ. Malvern and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt. 8 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. following; went to France, Sept. and was killed in action in the trenches at Ypres, 24 Feb. 1915; _unm._ Buried at Goderzom Farm, Vierstraat. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. [Illustration: =Lachlan H. V. Fraser.=] =FRASER, ROBERT=, Private, No. 8313, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., only _s._ of Robert Fraser, of Glasgow, by his wife, Mary; _b._ Glasgow, 1881; educ. Dobbies Loan School there; enlisted in the 3rd Battn. Highland L.I.; served through the South African war and retired in 1905 with the rank of Corpl.; re-enlisted in the 2nd Battn. on the outbreak of the European War; went to France in Nov. 1914; was wounded at Neuve Chapelle and again at Hill 60, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 25 Sept. 1915. After the fighting that day he was officially reported "Missing," but on 29 Nov. a letter was received by a wounded comrade who stated that he saw him buried that night. He _m._ at Glasgow, 25 May, 1906, Mary (130, Taylor Street, Townhead, Glasgow), dau. of James McLaughlan, of Glasgow, and had four children: Robert, _b._ 22 Dec. 1908; James, _b._ 6 Oct. 1913; Mary, _b._ 23 March, 1907; and Janet, _b._ 13 Jan. 1912. [Illustration: =Robert Fraser.=] =FRASER, WILLIAM ST. JOHN=, Lieut.-Commander, Royal Navy, 4th _s._ of Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, of Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, and Druimbeg, Acharacle, co. Argyle; M.D., F.R.S., LL.D., Professor of Materia Medica and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Edinburgh; Hon. Physician to the King in Scotland, by his wife, Susanna Margaret, dau. of the Rev. Robert Duncan; _b._ Edinburgh, 18 Sept. 1883; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Stubbington House, Fareham; entered the Navy, Britannia, 1898; became a midshipman, 1899; and was promoted Sub-Lieut., 1902, Lieut. 1904 and Lieut.-Commander, 1912; se |