Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Major W. N. Fraser, Army Pay Department, late Highland Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Modder River (Lieut., 1/High. L.I.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., A.P.D.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) very fine and better (4) £400-500

William Neil Fraser, a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry on 18 October 1899. Serving in South Africa, he took part in the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Modder River and Magersfontein, and was wounded in the calf in the latter battle. Lieutenant-Colonel H. R. Kelham, speaking of the battle of Magersfontein, said: ‘Tuesday 26 December - Marten returned from Cape Town; all our wounded were sent down there to hospital. I heard from Richardson that he will be returning shortly, and that Noyes’ leg has been saved, but he is being sent home; Fraser, too, is bad’. Fraser was promoted to Lieutenant in August 1900.

With the onset of the Great War he was a Captain in the Army Pay Department and entered Egypt on 4 October 1915 and thence Salonika on 21 October 1915, and served in that theatre of war until 27 June 1916. He ended the war as a Major. With some copied research.