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Flying Officer, RAF
Born: August 11th 1909
Died: June 25th 1944

Age at Death: 34

Killed, June 25th 1944

Born on 11 August 1909 to Robert Fraser and his wife May (née Gillespie), Gordon served with 102 Squadron during the war, flying bombers. By 1944 the unit was equipped with the Handley Page Halifax.

We can infer from his place of burial, Fontaine l’Étalon Churchyard in France’s Pas-de-Calais province, that he was killed on a bombing mission. This was far from the Allied forces in Normandy, but Pas-de-Calais, the site of a V-2 flying bomb base and enemy troops, was bombed by the Allies all the same – not least because the Allies devised an elaborate deception that Pas-de-Calais would be the site of the main Allied invasion, and Hitler continued to believe this for some time even after the Allies landed in Normandy.

Gordon left a widow, Angela, who may have been a cousin, since her maiden name was also Fraser.

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