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RARE \"15th Lord Lovat\" Simon Fraser Hand Signed 3X5 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "15th Lord Lovat" Simon Fraser Hand Signed 3X5 Card. This lot includes a vintage/RARE 3X4 B&W family photo. 

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 language.

His clan referred to him as MacShimidh, his

Gaelic patronym, meaning Son of Simon. Simon is the favoured family

name for the Chiefs of Clan Fraser. While the 15th Lord de jure, he was the

17th Lord Lovat de facto, but for the attainder of his Jacobite ancestor who was executed in 1747. He was also

4th Baron Lovat in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Fraser was the son of

the 14th Lord Lovat (commonly

known as the 16th Lord), and Laura, daughter of Thomas

Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale. After being educated at Ampleforth College (where

he was a member of the Officer Training Oxford University, where he joined the University's Cavalry

Squadron, Fraser was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Lovat Scouts (a Territorial Army unit)

in 1930. He transferred to the regular army, while still a second lieutenant

joining the Scots Guards in 1931.

The following year, Fraser succeeded his father to become the 15th Lord Lovat (referred to as the 17th Lord Lovat) and 25th

Chief of the Clan Fraser. He was promoted lieutenant in August 1934. Lovat

resigned his regular commission as a lieutenant in 1937, transferring to the

Supplementary Reserve of Officers.

He

married Rosamond Broughton (1917-2012), the daughter of Sir Henry John Delves

Broughton, on 10 October 1938, with whom he had six children. Lord

and Lady Lovat lived at Beaufort 1939, just months before the Second World War, Lord Lovat also resigned his reserve

commission.[8] In July, however, as war

approached, he was mobilized as a captain in the Lovat Scouts. The following year, he volunteered

to join one of the new commando units being formed by the British Army, and was

eventually attached to No. 4 Commando. On 3 March 1941, Nos 3 and 4 Commando

launched a raid on the

German-occupied Lofoten Islands. In the

successful raid, the commandos destroyed fish-oil factories, petrol dumps, and 11 ships. They and codebooks. As well, the commandos captured 216 German troops;

315 Norwegians chose to accompany the commandos back to Britain. As a temporary

major, Lord Lovat commanded 100 men of No. 4 Commando and a 50-man detachment

from the Canadian Carleton and York Regiment in

a raid on the French coastal village of Hardelot in April. For this action he was awarded

the Military Cross on 7

July 1942  Lord Lovat became an acting

lieutenant-colonel in 1942 and was appointed the commanding officer of No. 4

Commando, leading them in a successful component of the abortive Dieppe Raid (Operation Jubilee) on 19 August. His

commando attacked and destroyed a battery of six 150 mm guns. Lovat was

awarded the Distinguished Service

Order (DSO). The raid as a whole was a disastrous failure with over 4,000

casualties sustained, predominantly Canadian. Yet No. 4 Commando executed its

assault, with most men returning safely to Britain. Lord

Lovat eventually became a brigadier and became the commander of

the newly formed 1st Special Service

Brigade in 1944. Lord Lovat's brigade was landed at Sword during the invasion of Normandy on

6 June 1944. Lord Lovat reputedly waded ashore wearing a white jumper under his

battledress, with "Lovat" inscribed into the collar, while armed with

a .45-70 Winchester underlever rifle. (The latter claim has not been

verified and is disputed; however, in some earlier pictures y/1942 he is seen

with a bolt-action .30-06 Winchester M70 sporting

rifle). However, in his memoirs, Lovat states that he was armed with a

"short barreled U.S. Army carbine" (presumably an M1 Carbine) on

D-Day. Lord Lovat instructed his personal piper, Bill Millin, to pipe the commandos ashore, in defiance of

specific orders not to allow such an action in battle. When Private Millin

demurred, citing the regulations, he recalled later, Lord Lovat replied: “Ah,

but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both

Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.” Lovat's forces swiftly pressed on, Lovat

himself advancing with parts of his brigade from Sword to Pegasus Bridge, which had been defiantly defended by men of

the 2nd Bn the Ox &

Bucks Light Infantry (6th Airborne Division)

who had landed in the early hours by glider. Lord Lovat's commandos arrived at

a little past 1 p.m. at Pegasus Bridge though the rendezvous time as per the

plan was noon. It is a common misconception that they reached almost exactly on

time, late by only two and a half minutes. Upon reaching the rendezvous, Lord

Lovat apologised to Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Pine-Coffin,

of 7th Parachute Battalion. He went on to establish defensive positions

around Ranville, east of the River Orne. The bridges were relieved later in the day by

elements of the British 3rd Infantry

Division. During the Battle of Breville on

12 June, Lord Lovat was seriously wounded whilst observing an artillery bombardment by the 51st Highland Division. A stray shell fell short of

its target and landed amongst the officers, killing Lieutenant-Colonel A. P.

Johnston, commanding officer of the 12th

Parachute Battalion, also seriously wounding Brigadier Hugh

Kindersley of the 6th

Airlanding Brigade. By a grateful French Fourth Republic, he was

awarded the Légion d'honneur and the Croix de Guerre.

 The Longest Day, a

1962 film based on the book of the same name, features "Lord Lovat",

played by Peter Lawford. There is

some suggestion that the charlatan commando character "Trimmer"

in Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy of novels is based on Lovat. Lovat was closely associated with

Evelyn Waugh's forced resignation from the Commandos, which is the subject of

an exchange of correspondence between them which Waugh pasted into his war diaries.

In an article in Standpoint magazine, Paul cunning of a high order, [Waugh] manages to foist the ultra-plebeian

Trimmer on the exquisite person of Brigadier Lord Lovat, head of the clan

Fraser, who had his own family regiment and was known from his looks as

"the upper-class Erroll Flynn". "Shimi" Lovat committed the

unforgivable sin of ejecting Waugh from the Commandos since, he told me,

"he had made himself so hated by his men they would have shot him in the

back as soon as they went into action." So Waugh made Lovat into Trimmer.

Once, when I happened to say a word in praise of Waugh, "Shimi" let

forth a scream of rage and pain: "Do you realise, thanks to that monster,

I am Trimmer?""

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