The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Keptie

The Fort Augustus Parish Church at the side of the main road in the village of Fort Augustus is open daily to the public to visit .

On the inside wall of the church is one war memorial :

Glory to God

In Proud and Loving Memory of

CAPTAIN DAVID FRASER
1st Cameronians

And

CAPTAIN D'ARCY FRASER
Indian Army

Who died for their King and Country
In India and Gallipoli 1912 and 1915

Only sons of LIEUT GENERAL HASTINGS FRASER C.B.,
of ARDACHIE
and Charlotte Hastings Fraser

.
SEMPITERNUS
....

photograph needed

( The B & B owner told me that Ardachie House is no longer standing )

patrick w anderson

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:33 am Post subject:

FRASER, D'ARCY MACKENZIE.
Rank:Major
Date of Death:07/08/1915
Age:36
Regiment/Service:75th Carnatic Infantry
(Indian Army) attd. 6th Bn Lincolnshire Regiment
Grave ReferenceII. B. 5.
CemeteryGREEN HILL CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Lt. Gen. Hastings Fraser; husband of Esther Fraser, of Weston, Fermoy, Co. Cork.
_________________
Ken

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:59 am Post subject:

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28679/pages/196/page.pdf

Captain DAVID PASLEY FRASER, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and
other persons having any claims and demands
against the estate of David Pasley Fraser, late of the
United Service Club, 116, Pall Mall, in the county
of Middlesex, Bachelor, Captain in 3rd Battalion
Scottish Rifles, deceased (who died on the 17th day
of January, 1912, at Madras, in the Empire of India,
and whose will was proved in the Principal Registry
of the Probate Division of His Majesty's High Court
of Justice, on the 21st day of December, 1912, by
Charlotte Elizabeth Mackenzie Hastings' Fraser ..........

There's more family background at
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,333322.0.html

including

The Times Wednesday 8 May 1912
COURT CIRCULAR
Mrs Hastings Fraser and her son, Captain D'Arcy Fraser, have returned from India and wish to thank all their friends for their kind sympathy in their loss. Letters will be forwarded by Messrs Cox & Co., 16 Charing Cross S.W., as Mrs Hastings Fraser has given up her flat and club in town.

The Times Thursday 8 November 1917
COURT CIRCULAR
The King has granted a suite of apartments at Hampton Court Palace to Mrs Hastings Fraser, widow of Lieutenant-General Hastings Fraser C.B., of Ardachie, Fort Augustus.

The Times Thursday 7 Aug 1919
In Memoriam
FRASER
In most loving memory of CAPTAIN DAVID PASLEY FRASER (1st Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), and of his brother, CAPTAIN D'ARCY MACKENZIE FRASER, Indian Army, India and Gallipoli, the only sons of the late Lieut-General Hastings Fraser C.B., of Ardachie, Fort Augustus, N.B. and of Mrs Hastings Fraser, Hampton Court Palace
_________________
Ken

David McNay · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 3:10 pm Post subject:

Topic moved to "Individual Memorials" as, although in a church it's more of an individual memorial.

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

This is now WMR record 69826, with the photograph supplied by Patrick Anderson