History while in the forces
Nov 1915: joined Argyll Sutherland Highlanders as a Private, went in training at Richmond22 Jul 1916: sent out to the front and was engaged in trench digging when he was hit by a fragment of a shell and was invalided home to Armstrong College, Newcastle on Tyne. He has not left England since and has been recommended for a Commission and entered the Cadet School at Newmarket at the end of December 1916. He expects his Commission in 2 months' time.
- Surname
- Fraser
- Forename
- Malcolm Cowan
- Rating or rank
- Cadet
- Regiment or Other Unit
- 12th Officer Cadet Battalion
- Branch
- South Shields
- Date of Birth
- Dec 1896
- Date of birth
- 1896
- Date of Entering Bank's Service
- 22 Dec 1913
- Date of Joining HM Forces
- 15 Nov 1915
