Fraser worked as a station overseer in central-western Queensland before enlisting at the age of 24 at Blackall for service in World War I.

The Morning Bulletin reported that, after a free-fall of 3000 feet (914 m), he 'manipulated the controls to stop the machine going into a spin' and by 'a series of falling-leaf manoeuvres .

[4] Financial problems, exacerbated by the loss of his plane, forced the sale of Rockhampton Aerial Services and it was sold to Airlines of Australia in 1936.

Fraser once more turned to agriculture and bought Strathcona station in the Dingo district where he privately flew a De Havilland twin-engine aircraft.

Harold Fraser died on 1 November 1950, after suffering severe burns in a house fire at Greystonlea cattle station Homestead.