John Edward Fraser

Brother of Thomas Fraser

1875 Nov 9 Born Liverpool, Lancs

1881 census at 39 Mount Pleasant. Liverpool

 

1903 Aug 27 Sails to New York with an Acting Group He is a "vocalist". He can be found in may papers of the period as "J Edward Fraser" and seems to have worked a a leading man at Gaiety, a position that he was not able to take back in 1919. And ge then went touring round UK

1910 Jan 12. Married Christian Corfield Dick in London

1911 census at 5 Avonmore Gardens, West Kensington

1914 enlisted . He lived at 162 Kensington Park Rd, SE. #2266 in Northampton Regt. His NOK is altered during the war to Miss Brett Hudson, Post Office, Cley next sea, Norfolkwho was a "friend" Sheis in Census as Beatrice Mary Hudson at that address in 1911

1915 Nov 15 Landed in Franc3

1918 Apr 23 Transfers to Essex Regt.

1919 Jan 24 Discharged, He gave the Norfolk addess

1919 Jan 30 The Stage, London,

1919 At Gaiety Theatre

1920 Jan The inevitable Divorce

1920 Nov 23 enlisted with RIC no 75801. ex-Soldier & Actor

 

1928 All his belongs were destroyed when the Opera House , Southport burnt in 1928

 

1939 Register He is a married Actor and Composer at 48 Queen's Crescent, Chalk Farm, Camden. No sign of a wife

 

1949 Jan/Mar died London

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