Alexander Ferguson FRASER

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FRASER, Alexander Ferguson

Service Numbers:	1776, 1775A
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	52nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Not yet discovered
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 24 April 1918, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ithaca War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

12 Apr 1916:	Involvement Private, 1776, 52nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
12 Apr 1916:	Embarked Private, 1776, 52nd Infantry Battalion, RMS Mooltan, Sydney
24 Apr 1918:	Involvement Private, 1775A, 52nd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1775A awm_unit: 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-04-24

Pte Alexander Ferguson Fraser

From In Memory Of

In Memory Of Private Alexander Ferguson Fraser, 52nd Battalion, of Brisbane, Qld.

An overseer before enlisting in November 1915, Private Fraser left Australia for England with the 2nd Reinforcements in April 1916.

Arriving in France for service on the Western Front in May 1916, Private Fraser contracted malaria, and was repatriated to England in April 1917.

After re-joining the battalion in September 1917, Private Fraser was listed as missing on the 24th of April 1918.

Despite conflicting accounts of his death on his Red Cross Wounded and Missing Bureau file, it is most probable that Private Fraser was wounded in the stomach by machine-gun bullet during the 52nd Battalion's attack on Villers-Bretonneux.

Private Fraser was last seen having been placed unconscious in a shell-hole whilst being attended to by a British stretcher-bearer. He was later listed as having been killed in action, aged 23, and has no known grave.

Lest We Forget.

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