David Fraser (British Army officer)
General Sir David William Fraser GCB OBE was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies. He was an author of overbooks mostly focused on World War II history.
Fraser was born onDecember 1920. He was the son of Brigadier the Hon. William Fraser, the younger son of the 19th Lord Saltoun, and Pamela Maude, widow of Billy Congreve a Victoria Cross recipient and daughter of actors Cyril Maude and Winifred Emery. He was educated at Eton College. He left school to join the British Army but was refused. Instead, in January 1940, he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford.
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