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Pembroke College.
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Paterson Fraser
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Educated at Saint Andrew"s College, Grahamstown, South Africa, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, Fraser joined the Royal Air Force in 1927. He became a test pilot in 1934. He served in the Second World War as Officer Commanding the Experimental Flying Section at RAE Farnborough and then as Deputy Director of War Organisation at the Air Ministry.
In this capacity he prepared the early plans for the Normandy landings.
He continued his war service on the staff at Headquarters Second Tactical Air Force and then as Commandant of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment. 12 (Fighter) Group in 1956.
He went on to be Director of Royal Air Force Exercise Planning in 1959, United Kingdom Permanent Military Representative at Central Treaty Organization later in 1959 and Inspector-General of the Royal Air Force in 1962 before retiring in 1964. In retirement he was ordained as a priest.
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After the war he became Deputy Director of Policy (Air Staff) and then a member of the Defence Research Policy Staff.
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August 4, 2001 (aged 94)