Fraser Lorne Hilborn MM

Rank:

Lieutenant

Regimental number:

862192

Unit at enlistment:

180th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Paris Cemetery, Paris, Ontario

Awards or decorations:

Military Medal and Bar

Commemorated at:

Paris Presbyterian Church, Paris District High School Honour Roll

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Waterloo

Birth city:

Baden, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

Paris, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Paris, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Student

Religious denominations:

Presbyterian

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Gallantry medals:

Yes

Letters and documents

London Gazette: 31142
Date: January 24, 1919
Honour or Award: Military Medal
Authority: 2nd D.O. 4276, September 1, 1918
Name: Hilborn, Fraser Lorne (862192)
Unit: 19th Battalion

London Gazette: 31257
Date: March 29, 1919
Honour or Award: Bar to Military Medal
Authority: 2nd D.O., 4309, October 21, 1918
Name: Hilborn, Fraser Lorne (862192)
Unit: 19th Battalion

BC October 3, 1918

Paris Soldiers Win Recognition – Corporal Fraser Lorne Hilborn and Sergeant Robert Edmund Baldwin are Honored for Valor – Win Military Medal

(From Our Own Correspondent)

PARIS, October 2 – On Monday, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Hilborn, Jane Street received word that their son, Corporal Fraser Lorne Hilborn, had won a military medal, and has been recommended for a commission. He went into the fight on August 8th as a corporal when through bravery under fire and the skilful handling of the men; Fraser came out a Sergeant-Major.

Another Paris boy to win a military medal is Sergeant Robert Edmund Baldwin, of the 34th Battery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baldwin, Warwick Street. At the battle of Amiens, Sergeant Baldwin took his guns close up in support of the advancing infantry, greatly assisting and affording protection to the men. It will be remembered that Nursing Sister Miss Dorothy Baldwin, sister of the above, was one of the nurses cruelly murdered when the Germans bombed the Canadian military hospital at Boulogne last June. Both the above young people were former pupils of the Paris High School, so many of whom have brought honor to Paris and this school in winning a military medal.

BX September 27, 1979

HILBORN, Fraser – At Oakville, Ontario, on Wednesday, September 26, 1979, in his 83rd year, Fraser Lorne Hilborn, formerly of Paris; dearly beloved husband of Cecilia Stevens; dear father of Donald of Burlington and Mrs. Barry (Carol) Rayner of London, also survived by six grandchildren. Resting at the Wm. Kipp Funeral Home, 184 Grand River Street North, Paris, for service on Friday, September 28 at 3:30 p.m. Interment in Paris Cemetery.