Theodore Fraser

Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser KCB CSI CMG (15 June 1865 – 22 May 1953), was a British soldier of the Royal Engineers, serving for most of his career with the Indian Army.

In 1870 the family moved to Marylebone in London and his father became a prominent figure in the Presbyterian Church of England, serving as Moderator of the Synod in 1880.

In February 1900 he left Southampton in the SS Assaye bound for active service in South Africa during the Second Boer War.

[4] His experience was put to use as a Special Service Officer stationed in Cape Colony, the Orange Free State, and the Frederickstad in Western Transvaal until December that year.

He led the Corps through the Battle of Kut, and the maneuver leading to the occupation of Baghdad, and then the operations on the Adhaim in April, 1917.

He had received a brevet in March, and reached the substantive rank of colonel in December, by which time the operations in the Jabal Hamrin area had been concluded.

Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser's last known home address was at The Rookery, Roehampton Lane, London in 1939.