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Name: FRASER, Thomas
Birth Date: 7.7.1915 Mbabane, Swaziland
Death Date: 1995
First Date: 1934
Last Date: 1995
Profession: Coffee planter. Came to Kenya as a young boy of about 16 to stay with his aunt in Makuyu after her husband died. Farmer
Area: Belingwe Estate Ruiru; Makuyu
Married: In Springs, Gauteng 14 Sep 1949 Sylvia Unita Rosenberg b. 1915 Johannesberg, d. 2003 (Hut has Cummings?)
Children: Susan Melissa; Andrew Thomas
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, EAWL, Hut, Glimpses
General Information:
Source - Mrs Sylvia Fraser
Glimpses - Other Jews, of varying degrees of religiosity, arrived in Kenya in various capacities. One was Sylvia Rosenberg Fraser, who came from South Africa after the war. She married a Gentile farmer in the Thika area and lived cut off from Jewish life; nevertheless 'Shelanu' saw fit to publish an admiring article about "A War Hero and a Leader in Our Midst" shortly before she died in 2003.
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 829).