Christie Boy
BY CHRIS FRASER
From his birth in a railway cottage in Lairg, in the last months of the Great War, to his time as a Manager with David MacBrayne Ltd, in Fort William, Chris Fraser takes us on a tour of a Highland way of life now long gone.
In Sutherland, Grantown on Spey and Kyle of Lochalsh, his was a railway childhood filled with runaway trains, de-railed steam engines, frisky heifers, and strict Sabbath observance.
As a young man, making his way in MacBrayne’s, we meet the skippers and crewmen, characters who, between the wars, made the company a by-word.
And, with the Seaforths, Argylls, and Commandos, and from Arran to Cairo, we glimpse the confusion, frustration, but most of all pride, of a Highland soldier’s war.
Chris Fraser
in 1994
Chris Fraser
in 1938