Background
Bruce Austin Fraser was born February 5, 1888, in Acton, London, United Kingdom. He was the son of General Alexander Fraser CB and Monica Stores Fraser (née Smith)
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Bruce Austin Fraser was born February 5, 1888, in Acton, London, United Kingdom. He was the son of General Alexander Fraser CB and Monica Stores Fraser (née Smith)
Fraser completed his education at Bradfield Junior School.
After completing his education, Fraser joined the training ship Britannia in 1902. During World War I he served as a gunnery officer. In 1919 he was assigned to H. M. S. Resolution in the Grand Fleet and was promoted to commander. From 1922 to 1924 he was in the Gunnery Technical Department at the Admiralty. He was promoted to captain in 1926 and in 1929 was assigned to command the cruiser Effingham of the East India Squadron.
As director of naval ordnance from 1933 to 1935, Fraser was responsible for the development of the 14-inch (350-mm) guns that were mounted in the King George V class of battleship. He is also credited with improving the accuracy and concentration of the modern destroyer's antiaircraft firepower.
He was named chief of staff of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1936. In 1941 Fraser was knighted. He returned to sea duty as vice-admiral and second-in-command of the Home Fleet and was placed in charge of convoys to the Soviet Union. In his flagship Duke of York, Fraser fought and sank the German battleship Scharnhorst, December 1943, in one of the most spectacular naval engagements of World War II. In 1943-1944, as commander in chief of the Home Fleet, he commanded the blockade of Norway. He then was transferred to the Japanese theater of war as commander in chief of the British Pacific Fleet, serving under the American Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Fraser signed the Japanese surrender papers for Great Britain in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.
Fraser was created a baron on January 1, 1946, taking the name Baron Fraser of North Cape. He was promoted from vice-admiral to Admiral of the Fleet in 1948. On May 15, 1948, he was appointed First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, serving until 1951, when he retired.
Bruce served in the First World War and saw action during the Gallipoli Campaign and took part in the internment of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of the War. He also served in the Second World War initially as Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy and then as Second-in-Command and afterward as Commander of the Home Fleet.
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