Private James Frazer

Portrayed by John Laurie

'Private James Frazer opened his undertakers business next door to Jones's butcher's shop in the High street,soon after he returned from the sea.

Born on the isle of Barra, a wild and lonely place just off the west coast of Scotland, he joined his first ship at the age of fourteen and spent the next thirty-five years roaming the world. Pearl fishing in the south seas, trading off the coast of Africa, a life packed full of adventure. His stories are legion. How many are true and how many are imagined no one will ever know.

He is not an optimist, and his interest in the occult has confirmed his belief that we are all doomed ! Doomed !'

Jimmy Perry & David Croft from "Dads Army" (Elm Tree Books 1975).