Major General William Archibald Kenneth Fraser, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MVO, MC (19 December 1886 – 9 February 1969) was an officer in the British Indian Army during the First and Second World Wars.
[1][2] His father died in 1899 and the family returned to Ireland, where he was educated at [St. Andrew's College, Dublin].
[3] He served with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and 16th The Queen's Lancers on the Western Front during the First World War, taking part in the Great Retreat in August 1914, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915 and the Battle of Arras in April 1917.
[3] Fraser served in the Second World War and, having been promoted to major general on 26 December 1940 (with seniority from 21 April),[4] he became Commander of the 10th Indian Infantry Division on 15 January 1941.
[8] On 16 May, having fallen sick, Fraser was replaced as commander of the 10th Indian Infantry Division by Major General William Slim.