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FRASER, James Alexander
(Service number 80062)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	20 January 1886	Place of Birth	Sefton

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	St Andrews, Waimate
Occupation	Merchant
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs J. FRASER (wife), St Andrews, Canterbury
Religion	Protestant
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	43rd Reinforcements, F Company
Date	17 August 1918
Transport	Ruahine
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Storekeeper

Death

Date	3 August 1959	Age	73 years
Place of Death	Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

James Alexander Fraser was the son of James and Sarah Long Stafford Fraser. He married Jane Isabel Copland on 7 Novemver 1911 at Esk Valley, St Andrews, South Canterbury.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [21 May 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [21 May 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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