Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Donald Fraser
Ancestor's date of birth: 03/04/1868
Ancestor's date of death: 28/02/1900
Cause of Death: Died of Wounds succumbed during battle with Boers at Arundel just south of Colesberg.
Service and Life Before the Boer War: Son of Major Donald Fraser of Sydney.
Service Number: 45
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Sydney.
Unit: NSW Infantry company, E Squadron 1st NSW Mounted Rifles
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 1899
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Did not survive the Boer War.
Murray Page: 39 and 203
Contingent: First New South Wales
Ship: Aberdeen, Date of Sailing: 03/11/1899
Memorial details: Colesburg Cemetery, South Africa. Australian National War Memorial, Canberra.
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South African Medal with Cape Colony clasp (posthumously awarded).
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided.
Reasons to go and fight: Father was Major Donald Fraser and enlisted in the Boer War with younger brother Private (later Lieutenant Colonel) John Edward Fraser.
Details of service in war: December 1899 - February 1900 in northern Cape Colony. Wounded in action on the 26 February 1900 at Arundel and succumbed to those wounds in Colesberg on the 28 February 1900.
Service and life after the Boer War: Did not survive the Boer War.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Kelly Anderson, Quakers Hill NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: 2 x Great Uncle (in law)
