Charles Ian Fraser of Reelig CBE TD DL (1903 – 1963) was a Scottish British Army officer, historian and officer of arms.
Fraser was a commissioned officer in the Lovat Scouts. He served in the Second World War and in 1942 he was awarded the Efficiency Decoration.[1] In 1944 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Inverness-shire.[2] He was confirmed in the honorary rank of Major in 1951.[3] He was later granted the honorary rank of Colonel. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1962 New Year Honours for his work as Chairman of the Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Inverness.
In 1939, Fraser was made Dingwall Pursuivant herald in the Court of the Lord Lyon.[4] In 1953 he was promoted to Albany Herald.[5] An expert on Scottish clan history, heraldry and genealogy, he contributed two books to Johnston & Bacon's Clan Histories series: The Clan Cameron, A Patriarchy Beset (1953) and The Clan Munro (1954).
In 1929 he married Mary Charity Campbell-Preston and together they had four children. He was Laird of Reelig.
References edit
- ^ "No. 35729". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 October 1942. p. 4331.
- ^ "No. 36784". The London Gazette. 7 November 1944. p. 5094.
- ^ "No. 39380". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 November 1951. p. 5910.
- ^ Dingwall Pursuivant, Court of the Lord Lyon. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ^ Albany Herald, Court of the Lord Lyon. Retrieved 28 November 2022.