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was posted to No. 1505 Beam Approach Training Flight, Honington, Suffolk for a course of a weeks duration on the completion of which he was posted to No. 75 (NZ) Squadron, Feltwell, Norfolk. With this Squadron initally as second pilot and later as captain of a Wellington Bomber Aircraft he participated in 33 operational flights including the following targets, Dusseldorf, Essen (8), including 2 daylight raids, Kiel, Dortmund, Hamburg, Cologne (3), Rostock (2), Stuttgart (2), Emden (4), all in Germany, Genneville, Brest, Le Havre (2), Boulogne, and the Renault Works in Paris all in France and minelaying sorties at St. Nazaire off La Rochelle, Kiel Bay and in the Baltic Sea.

Flying Officer Fraser was the pilot of a Wellington Bomber Aircraft which took off on the night of 20/21st June, 1942 to attack the target of Emden, Germany and failed to return to its base and all the members of the crew including Flying Officer Fraser were classified as missing. Later, information was received from German source through the International Red Cross Committee, stating that Flying Officer Fraser's body had been washed ashore at Scheirmonnikoog, one of the Frisian Islands off Holland. In consequence he was reclassified as missing believed killed. In due course his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 21st June, 1942. Information was subsequently received that he had been buried in the Schiermonnikoog Cemetery, New Part, off Holland.

Find a Grave link with photos of Flying Officer Fraser: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13850028/allen_armistice-fraser/photo

5/2/71 AS2
460 hours as
PILOT. (underlined)

Mrs. E.J. Fraser (W) (right aligned)
C/O J.C. Buchanan Esq., (right aligned)
Sturdie Street, (right aligned)
WAIROA. (right aligned & underlined)