Clyde Archibald (Cockie) FRASER

FRASER, Clyde Archibald

Service Number: 4312
Enlisted: 24 August 1915
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 12th Infantry Battalion
Born: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 15 April 1897
Home Town: Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Horse Driver
Died: Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 23 July 1916, aged 19 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Listed on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial but no known grave., Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, South Launceston State School Pictorial Honour Roll, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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Biography contributed by Virginia Leopold

Clyde Archibald Fraser was the son of Noah Archibald Fraser and Louisa Eleanor Weavell Fraser.  Descendant from convict and bounty immigrants.  On arrival in Egypt Clyde would succumb to the attraction of the girls entertaining the troops.  Clyde would then spend 36 days hospitalised for the experience.  He would rejoin his unit on 21 July 1916.  

Under the cover of darkness Clyde would find himself in the Battle of Pozieres.  Initially listed as MIA, Clyde's would be listed as killed in action 11 months later after an investigation by the Australian Wounded & Missing Enquiry Board.

Witnesses would state that Clyde received a shrapnel wound to the chest at about 9.30am on the first day of the battle.

He died in a field on a farm and his remains were never recovered but he is remembered by his family.  He was my grandmother's brother.

Lest we forget.

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