2nd Lieutenant Nigel John FRASER (130580)
King's Shropshire Light Infantry attached to the 2nd Battalion Herefordshire Regiment

Date of birth: 13th May 1917
Date of death: 18th November 1941

Killed on active service aged 24
Commemorated at the South London Crematorium, Mitcham Panel 25
He was born at Ecclesall, Yorkshire on the 13th of May 1917, the son of John Newton Mappin Fraser, a manager at Mappin and Webb Ltd, and Vera Eleanor (nee Beardshaw) of 6, The Highway, Sutton, Surrey.

He was educated at Downs Lodge, Sutton, and at the King's School Canterbury from September 1931 to December 1935, where he was in The Grange. He was a School Monitor and Head of House. He represented the school as Captain of the Rugby XV in 1934/35 and in athletics in the same years.

He went on to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and on leaving was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry on the 11th of May 1940.

He was attached to the 2nd Battalion Herefordshire Regiment and joined them on the 13th of July 1940 with two other officers from the same training unit. The battalion were tasked with the defence of the Wirral at the time and on the 9th of July they moved to Rockland Camp. In October 1940 they moved to winter billets at Aintree, Liverpool and on the 28th of October all leave was cancelled pending a move overseas but this move was subsequently cancelled. Instead they moved to Camberley on the 3rd of November. In April 1941 they moved once more to Aldershot and in June 1941 they moved to Horsham. Between the 17th of November and the 20th of November 1941 they moved to Broadmayne Camp in Dorset,

Nigel Fraser was killed in an accident.
The Grange

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