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{{short description|Scottish cricketer and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Charles Fraser
| image =
| country = Scotland
| full_name = Charles James Stewart Fraser
| birth_date = 5 February 1896
| birth_place = [[Nagpur]], [[Central Provinces]],<br>[[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1929|10|18|1896|2|5|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Woking]], [[Surrey]], England
| nickname =
| family = [[Patrick Fraser (cricketer)|Patrick Fraser]] (brother)
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1927/28
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 13
| bat avg1 = 6.50
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 7
| deliveries1 = 60
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 9 November
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/charles-fraser-28687 ESPNcricinfo
}}
'''Charles James Stewart Fraser''' {{postnominal|MC}} (5 April 1896 — 18 October 1929) was a Scottish first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in the [[British Indian Army]].

The son of [[Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser|Sir Andrew Fraser]], he was born in [[British India]] at [[Nagpur]] in April 1896 and was educated in Scotland at the [[Edinburgh Academy]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Edinburgh Academy Register|date=1914|publisher=[[Thomas Constable (printer and publisher)|T. & A. Constable Ltd.]]|page=525|url=https://archive.org/details/edinburghacademy00edinuoft|language=en}}</ref> From there, he attended the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. Shortly after attending the college, the [[First World War]] began. Fraser fought in the war, being commissioned as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] with a view to his appointment to the [[British Indian Army]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28986|date=24 November 1914|page=9972|supp=y}}</ref> He was attached to the [[54th Sikhs (Frontier Force)|54th Sikhs]] in January 1915,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29239|date=23 July 1915|page=7205}}</ref> with promotion in the regiment to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] following in February 1917.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30017|date=13 April 1917|page=3511}}</ref> Following the war, he was awarded the [[Military Cross]] for his services during the [[Mesopotamian campaign]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31266|date=1 April 1919|page=4327|supp=y}}</ref> In April 1919, he was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31416|date=24 June 1919|page=7949}}</ref>

Whilst in India, Fraser made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Hindus cricket team|Hindus]] at [[Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore#Cricket ground|Lahore]] in the 1927–28 [[Lahore Tournament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13466/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Charles Fraser|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=9 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was [[run out]] for 7 runs in the Europeans first innings, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 6 runs by [[Brij Lall (cricketer)|Brij Lall]]. With the ball, he bowled ten wicketless [[over (cricket)|overs]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12588.html|title=Europeans v Hindus, Lahore Tournament 1927/28|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=9 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Whilst on leave in Britain in 1929, Fraser was killed in a car accident when his car overturned at the Six Crossroads junction near [[Woking]], with him being thrown from the vehicle.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19291021/061/0005|title=Killed on leave|work=[[The Press and Journal|Aberdeen Press and Journal]]|page=5|date=21 October 1929|access-date=9 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> His brother, [[Patrick Fraser (cricketer)|Patrick]], was also a first-class cricketer.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=28687}}

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[[Category:1896 births]]
[[Category:1929 deaths]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Nagpur]]
[[Category:People educated at Edinburgh Academy]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Military Cross]]
[[Category:Scottish cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Road incident deaths in England]]
[[Category:British sportspeople in British India]]

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