Daniel Joseph Fraser

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Name: Daniel Joseph Fraser Rank: Warrant Officer Class II Service: Cape Breton Highlanders, R.C.I.C Service No.: F/54767 Date of Death: January 17, 1944 Age at Death: 27 Cemetery: Moro River Canadian War Cemetery Born on November 12, 1916, at Sydney Mines, Daniel was the son of Daniel M. and Ann Fraser of New Waterford, NS. He was the husband of Catherine Jane Fraser, married on November 8, 1939, and father of Georgina and Daniel David Fraser. A miner by trade, he enlisted on October 14, 1939 at New Waterford. He served in Canada until November 10, 1941, in the United Kingdom between November 11, 1941 and October 23, 1943 and in Italy from October 24, 1943 until his death on January 17, 1944. He was killed in action and was initially buried near the junction of the Ortona and Tollo Road. Commemorated on page 309 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on July 1