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Lord Lovat – Sword Beach. Brigadier Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat and 4th Baron Lovat, DSO, MC, TD 1911 – 1995 was the 25th Chief of the Clan Fraser of Lovat and a prominent British Commando during the Second World War. His friends called him “Shimi” Lovat, an anglicised version of his name in the Scottish Gaelic ...
Standing in the foreground at right, Piper Bill Millin pipes Lord Lovat’s Commandos ashore on the Queen Red Beach sector of Sword Beach on D-Day. Lord Lovat is seen wading ashore just to the right of the column of soldiers. As Millin floundered toward the beach, Lovat shouted, “Give us ‘Highland Laddie,’ man!”.
Simon Augustine Fraser, Master of Lovat was the son of 15th Lord Lovat and the former Rosamond Broughton. He predeceased his father, and his son Simon inherited the Lordship of Lovat in 1995. He died of a heart attack while hunting on his (then) estate at Beaufort Castle.
Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat and 2nd Baron Lovat, DL (21 December 1828 – 6 September 1887) was a British nobleman, landowner, and soldier. He was the 22nd Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat in the Scottish Highlands, and responsible for overseeing the reconstruction of Beaufort Castle .
15 ago 2017 · Yet within the overall catastrophe – and the needless loss of hundreds of lives was indeed both catastrophic and tragic – there was one superb piece of soldiering carried out by a force led by one of the most remarkable of all Scottish military officers, Simon Fraser, the 15th Lord Lovat, or 17th Lord if you count his Jacobite ancestor who was the last man in Britain to be beheaded and is ...
22 apr 2014 · Remembering Simon Fraser, The Lord Lovat. by Mike Perry Apr 22, 2014. Share This: Fans of the World War II film, The Longest Day, will remember the scene in which a group of British soldiers come ...
Lord Lovat foi um empreendedor que desempenhou papel fundamental na colonização do norte do Paraná. Em uma de suas últimas viagens à região, em 1931, acompanhou a vinda do então príncipe de Gales. Simon Joseph Fraser faleceu dois anos depois, deixando seu nome a um município que mais tarde foi rebatizado de Mandaguari, a diversas ruas ...
