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- George B. MacDonell Fraser was the youngest son of the late George B. Fraser, barrister, etc., of Chatham, N. B., and Blanche, daughter of Dr. Brydone-Jack, a graduate of Aberdeen University, and for many years President of the University of New Brunswick.
"Mac" was born at Chatham, June 28, 1894, and was educated in the public schools of the town, matriculating from the Grammar School to the University in 1911. In May, 1915, he was graduated with the degree C.E., in absentia, for he was at the front in France.
While an undergraduate, he was employed in the Public Works Department three summers, - two at Chatham,N.B., the other at Quebec.
In November, 1914, he and many of his classmates joined the 23rd Field Battery and trained in Fredericton till February, 1915, when he sailed in the "Megantic" for England. In the following May "Mac" went to France in a reinforcement to the 8th Battery under Colonel Anderson, was wounded in October, 1916, and invalided to England for several months. Returning to France in May, 1917, he was transferred to the 5th Battery, and fell in the Battle of Vimy Ridge, July 23, 1917.
He had seen much fighting on the Somme, both as a member of the 8th and afterwards of the 5th Battery, and his great coolness, dash, and courage were everywhere remarked.
"A good soldier and comrade; even tempered, cool and brave under fire; jolly and unselfish," writes a companion. Another says: "Mac stood true under the supremest tests of manhood." Again: "All who knew him loved him for his constant cheerfulness and devotion to duty." "No better gunlayer or finer man in the Battery than Mac Fraser," adds another.
He was buried in Aux Ritz Military Cemetery, Davons, near Albert.
His eldest brother, Lieutenant Archibald Brydone Fraser, of the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders, Vancouver, was killed in the Battle of the Somme, November 2, 1916, and buried in the Albert Communal Cemetery.
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