Jock Fraser (1899 - 1974) Watercolor on paper,Signed Lower Let, Measures (10 x 14 inches) w/frame (19 x 23 inches) J E (Jock) Fraser was born in Dunedin in 1899. As a young man he trained as a primary school teacher, and later studied drawing and watercolor painting at Heatherleys Art School in London. With the outbreak of WWII Jock Fraser served in the Intelligence Section of the 26th New Zealand Infantry Brigade, both in Greece and the Western Desert. In 1941 he was captured at Sidi Rezegh, and spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner at Campo 52 in Genoa. There he passed the boredom of camp life by drawing on scraps of writing paper. When the prisoners were marched on to another camp near Udine, he left the drawings with an Italian family who sent them via advancing American forces to New Zealand.In 1943 he and other prisoners were transferred to Stalag Vlll A, near Dresden, where they worked in factories, mines, quarries and railroad construction.

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