Company Sergeant Major John S. Fraser

4th Gordon Highlanders

A member of Lodge The Bruce No.593, Froickheim

Image and Information taken from the Arbroath Roll of Honour for the 1914-1918 War

Killed 22nd March 1918

Company Sergeant-Major John S. Fraser, 4th Gordon Highlanders, Andson Street, Friockheim, was the son of William Fraser and of his wife Elizabeth Duguid, Brechin. He was thirty-seven years of age, and had married Ida Edwards, Brechin, and left three sons. Sergeant-Major Fraser was a slater in Friockheim, and was a most useful member of the Parish Council.

He was also a scout¬master, and was secretary to the Masonic Lodge (Lodge The Bruce No.593).

He had long been connected with the Volunteers and Territorials, and held the long service medal. He was mobilised in August 1914 as a sergeant in the 5th Black Watch, and appointed to instructor duty.
He went to France with the Gordons, and was acting C.S.M. when he was killed at Hermies, near Bourbon Wood, on the 22nd of March 1918. His C.O. said: — "He was a good and faithful soldier, and a splendid leader of men." The chap¬lain wrote: — "He was one of the best men we had, and a man who could ill be spared. His work out here was excellent, and officers and men were greatly attached to him."