Donald James (Don) FRASER

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FRASER, Donald James

Service Number:	6084
Enlisted:	31 January 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	22nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Terang, Victoria, Australia, 9 September 1882
Home Town:	Terang, Corangamite, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bank Agent
Died:	Natural Causes, Kyneton, Victoria, Australia, 18 July 1963, aged 80 years
Cemetery:	Kyneton Cemetery, Victoria
Memorials:	Terang War Memorial

World War 1 Service

31 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6084, 22nd Infantry Battalion
31 May 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 6084, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Specialist Training: Signals School Broadmeadows
5 Sep 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Depot Battalion , Posted to Signals School Broadmeadows Camp 31 May to 10 October 1916
31 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 6084, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: ''
31 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 6084, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Argyllshire, Melbourne
22 Aug 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Taken on Strength of the 22nd Battalion in the field France
21 Jul 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 6084, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Gassed Severe Evacuation to England Connaught War Hospital Aldershot
18 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6084, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Returned HMT Runic 10/6/1919 Discharged Medically Unfit 3rd Military District

Private Donald James Fraser

6084 Private Donald James Fraser eldest brother of

Lieutenant Colonel William Angus Fraser CO 3rd LightHorse Field Ambulance,

Major Alexander Clow Fraser Officer Commanding 6th Field Ambulance (previously RMO 24th Battalion AIF) and

Hamilton MacDonald Fraser (Did not Serve).

Private Donald Fraser played for Collingwood (1904-06) in their 1905 attempt to win the VFL Premiership flag of 1905.

Donald Fraser applied for and accepted a Soldier Settlement block at Lauriston ( West of Kyneton Vic) in the early to mid 1920’s. Don farmed in the district till his passing in 1963.

Don was buried in the family plot at Kyneton General Cemetery ( His wife passed in 1937).

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