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Jan 26, 1904 Died on 09 Nov 1992 (aged 88)
British writer and missionary
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About Charles Fraser Smith
- Charles Fraser-Smith (26 January 1904 – 9 November 1992) was an author and one-time missionary who is widely credited as being the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond quartermaster Q.
- During World War II, Fraser-Smith worked for the Ministry of Supply, fabricating equipment nicknamed "Q-devices" (after Q-ships) for SOE agents operating in occupied Europe.
- Prior to the war, Fraser-Smith had worked as a missionary in North Africa.
- After the war he purchased a dairy farm in Bratton Fleming, Devon, where he died in 1992.
