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Name: FRASER, Mackenzie Hamilton (Capt.)

Nee: son of Sir H. Fraser LL.D. of Stromeferry, Co. Ross and Kensington

Birth Date: 26 Nov 1889 Kensington

Death Date: 28 June 1919 Mumias, blackwater fever, buried at Mumias

First Date: 1914

Last Date: 1919

Profession: Military, 2 Seaforth Highlanders

Area: Mumias

Married: In Kensington 9 Dec 1918 Ethel Maud Higgins b. 8 Feb 1885, d. 22 Nov 1979 Cheltenham

Book Reference: Hut, CWGC, Gazette, Nicholls, Eton, A. Allen, Red 19

War Service: Seaforth Highlanders & KAR

School: Eton 1903-08; Trinity Hall Cambridge, BA

General Information:

CWGC - Mumias Cemetery - Captain Mackenzie Hamilton Fraser, Seaforth Highlanders. 28th June 1919.
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - KAR - Temporary Commission - To be Lieutenant - Lieutenant M.H. Fraser, Seaforth Highlanders (Rosshire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
Nicholls - Mumias - There were 6 graves in its European cemetery, 5 of them of blackwater fever cases. And then another DO, Mackenzie Hamilton Fraser, also died there of the same cause. The DC, Edward Vincent Hemnant, who had summoned Dr. P.A. Clearkin from Kisumu in a vain attempt to save his colleague, ordered the local village carpenter to make a rough coffin out of some of the shelves in his office. They found an old KAR bugler to sound the Last Post. Hemnant read the burial service, rain dripped down relentlessly and mosquitoes feasted on the mourners. In exactly one month Hemnant himself would occupy a grave next to his assistant, in a coffin made from the rest of his office shelves.
Eton (1909) - 2nd Lieut 4th Highland Brigade, R. Garrison Art., TF 1911-12; joined Seaforth Highlanders 1912, Lieut 1914, Capt 1917; served att. KAR in E. Africa in WW1 1914-16; Assist. Dist. Commnr. E. Africa Protectorate 1916-18; died at Mumias, BEA, June 28 1919
Gazette 3/6/1914 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. Dist. Commissioner - 15/5/1914 - M.H. Fraser
Gazette 6/8/1919 - His Excellency the Governor deeply regrets to announce the death of Capt. M H Fraser, Asst. District Commissioner from blackwater fever at Mumias on 28/6/1919

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