Andrew Stewart FRASER

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FRASER, Andrew Stewart

Service Number:	WX11847
Enlisted:	28 April 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Motor Transport Company
Born:	Fort William, Scotland, 12 November 1911
Home Town:	Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling:	Bateman Primary School, Western Australia
Occupation:	Trainee Electrician
Died:	Illness, Thailand, 28 November 1943, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery 1 D 29,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, WX11847
28 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX11847
20 Jan 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX11847, 4th Motor Transport Company, embarked Fremantle for Singapore on board the Batavia
8 Apr 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Died of illness at PoW Camp, Thailand

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private/Driver Andrew Stewart Fraser (Service No:WX11847) enlisted in the AIF on 28 April 1941, and was attached to 4 Reserve Motor Transport Coy on 20 January 1942 when he embarked with his Unit from Fremantle for Singapore on board the Batavia. Reported Missing, believed PoW on 8 April 1942, Private Fraser entrained from Singapore Railway Station for Thailand with D Force on 18 March 1943, and Japanese Radio confirmed he was a PoW on 4 August 1943. Private Fraser died of Illness (Malaria) in Thailand on 28 November 1943.

Andrew was born at Fort William, Scotland in 1911, youngest of five children of William Fraser (b1871 in Angus, Scotland) and Catherine Ann Stewart (b1883 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland). William (a Postman) and Catherine (a Farm Labourer) married in Perthshire in 1902, settling in Inverness where they raised their family and William was a School Janitor. In 1922 William and Catherine immigrated with their four surviving children, arriving in Fremantle on board the Moreton Bay - William gave his occupation as Barman. William and Catherine settled in Fremantle, where William worked as a Labourer and Caretaker.

Andrew worked in Fremantle as a Horse Driver, and was a Trainee Electrician in 1941 when he enlisted in the Army.

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