Claud Lovat Fraser

Through MacFall he also gained an introduction to the Actor Manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, proprietor of His Majesty’s Theatre in Haymarket.

[3] In 1913, along with Holbrook Jackson and the poet Ralph Hodgson, Lovat Fraser established a small publishing firm called The Sign of the Flying Fame to produce decorative poetry broadsides and chapbooks.

[4] In October 1914 Fraser enlisted with the Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps, and was quickly commissioned into the 14th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry.

Fraser was fortunate to survive that battle unscathed; many of his battalion's officers were killed or wounded and a quarter of its men also became casualties.

In December of that year, by now serving in the Ypres Salient, the battalion withstood a German gas attack in which Fraser may have suffered injuries to his lungs.

By Grace's description he was ‘tall, brown-haired and hazel-eyed, big-boned with a very fine white skin and a beautifully moulded Grecian mouth’.

On one such holiday there in 1921 Lovat was taken seriously ill.[6] He died in a local nursing home on 18 June, after a surgical operation for obstruction of the bowel the previous day.