Ian Edward Fraser - Later Life

Later Life

• 1946: Fraser was awarded the American decoration of Legion of Merit, Degree of Officer.
• 1947: Fraser left the Royal Navy, but he remained in the Royal Naval Reserve. He set up a commercial diving firm.
• 1953: He was promoted to lieutenant-commander.
• 1957: Fraser's autobiography Frogman VC was published.
• 1957: He became a Justice of the Peace in Wallasey.
• 16 August 1963: He was awarded a bar to his Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve.
• 18 December 1965: He left the Royal Naval Reserve.
• 1980: He became a Younger Brother of Trinity House.
• 1993: He was made an honorary freeman of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral.
• 1 September 2008: Fraser died aged 87 at Arrowe Park Hospital, after a three week illness. He was survived by his wife Melba, and 5 of his 6 children, and 13 grandchildren, and 7 great-grandchildren. He was cremated at Landican cemetery, Birkenhead.