- SURNAME
Lovat
- FORENAME
Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 17th Lord (Shimi)
- UNIT
4 Commando (Commanding Officer) + GOC 1 Special Service Brigade
- RANK
Captain (A/Lieutenant Colonel) + Lieutenant Colonel + Brigadier
- NUMBER
44718
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Order,Military Cross,Legion dHonneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre avec palme (Fr)
- PLACE
Dieppe 1942 (DSO) 1942 (MC) France 1944 (CdG)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Lovat Scouts
born 9.7.1911
elder son of 16th Lord Lovat (succeeded to his father 1933)
educated Ampleforth and Magdalen College,Oxford Univ. (M.A.)
Lieutenant,Scots Guards 1932-37
Lieutenant-Colonel 1942
Brigadier 1943
Commandos 1941
former Instructor,Special Training Centre,Lochailort
Joint Under Secretary for Affairs May-July 1945
awarded Liberation Cross (Norway)
awarded Order Suvorov (Russia)
awarded T.D. 1958
WIA June 1944 Normandy
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs 1945
cattle breeder postwar
married Rosamund Delves Broughton 10.10.1938 (6 children)
24th Chief of the Clan Fraser
died 16.3.1995
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