12-10-2007, 12:42 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1   | Peter Fraser RIP Classical scholar whose love of Greece — ancient and modern — was kindled in war Peter Marshall Fraser was born in 1918 and educated at the City of London School. Winning a classical scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford, he took classical mods, but then, with the advent of war, joined the Seaforth Highlanders (he would recall that one of his grandfathers had been a Gaelic-speaking Highlander who knew no English). Parachuted into Greece in 1943, he spent an adventurous and extremely dangerous two years, which included being drafted for work on fortifications by the occupying forces, unaware that he was a British officer, and leading a raid on a German airfield which won him the Military Cross in 1944. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2640678.ece
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12-10-2007, 01:01 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Impressive man. RIP.
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