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Shannon News, 27 October 1922, Page 3

A wristlet watch lost by Major E. G. Fraser, of the Auckland Battalion, at Gallipoli on the day of the landing was recently returned to him from an English businessman in Alexandria. The watch was a present from the Waitemata Lodge of Freemasons, and it bore an engraved inscription to that effect, no indication being given of the country in which the lodge existed. Three months ago the Worshipful Master of the lodge received an inquiry from the mon in Alexandria if he could tell the whereabouts of “Brother E. G. Fraser.” Major Fraser answered the letter, and last mail brought the watch, still in good order. The sender said that all ceived art inquiry from the man in his employ had received it from an Australian soldier in exchange for a bottle of beer. Strangely enough, a few days before the first letter from Alexandria arrived Major Fraser re- . called his lost watch and wondered if a Turk had secured it.