John Rae Tarras was born in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, the son of Andrew and Harriet Jane Tarras.
He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery and he served with the 9th Trench Mortar Battery during the Great War on the Western Front from May 1916, and was killed in action by a shell on 16 October 1916.
He is buried in Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, France.
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