436776 Corporal Simon A. Fraser MM

Simon Alexander Fraser displayed extraordinary bravery during the attack on Regina Trench on October 8, 1916. Amid murderous fire, he twice led patrols across open ground to establish contact with isolated troops. Crawling to wounded men near enemy lines, he treated their injuries and dragged them to safety, even carrying a wounded machine-gun sergeant on his back under fire. One of only 15 men from his company to emerge unscathed, he was awarded the Military Medal. He had been wounded previously on two occasions in the Ypres Salient in 1916. Fraser was later killed in action at Passchendaele on October 30, 1917, and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.