| Died |
July 17, 1917
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| Force |
Navy
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| Home Address |
230 Carlton Street
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Fraser Bryans attended Winchester Street Public School and Jarvis Street Collegiate Institute before entering UTS in 1910. He graduated with honours in 1912 and went on to study Applied Science at the University of Toronto. He was a successful rugby player both at UTS and in University, where he was a member of Varsity’s last championship squad. He began his training for the Air Service in 1916 at the Curtiss School and went overseas in the same year, attached to the Royal Naval Air Service. He finished his training and was assigned to patrol duty between Felixtowe, where he was quartered, and the Hook of Holland. In July 1917 he was practicing fighting a substantial bombing aircraft when his small plane collided with the larger machine, killing him instantly. His fellow officer Flight Sub-Lieutenant Stafford Lusk wrote in a letter to Bryans’ father that “I feel the loss of his friendship very keenly...I could never wish for a better friend, and he was certainly one of the truest men I shall ever meet.” His body was repatriated, and he is one of nine UTS boys who fell during the war to be buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. “He loved life, but he loved duty more. Forever with the Lord.”
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