Fraser, John Neville

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Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsArmy officersGraziersHistory(John) Neville Fraser, the father of former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, was born in Toorak, Melbourne in 1890. He was the son of Sir Simon Fraser and his second wife Anna Bertha Fraser (nee Collins). He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, the University of Melbourne and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1914. At the outbreak of World War 1, he enlisted in King Edward's Horse Brigade, later transferring to the Royal Field Artillery. He served in France from August 1915 until October 1918, fighting at the Somme, Ypres and Messines Ridge. In 1923, he met Una Arnold Woolf, the daughter of a Perth accountant. They married in Sydney in 1926 and had two children: Lorraine, born in 1927, and John Malcolm (known as Malcolm), born in 1930. The Fraser family lived near Deniliquin in New South Wales until 1943, when they moved to 'Nareen' in the Western District of Victoria. Neville Fraser continued to be active in the firm founded by his father, the Squatting Investment Company, and was on the board of the Hamilton Hospital; but his main occupation was running the family's estate. In World War 2, he served with the RAAF. Neville Fraser died on 23 January 1962. occSearch records of this agent

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Fraser, Una, Malcolm Fraser as a baby with his father (John) Neville Fraser. (1930), [UMA-ITE-2007005300006]. University of Melbourne Archives, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/308963

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