ARMY CDOS Lovat, Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 17th Lord (Shimi)

[John Robertson]

• 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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