When Richard Edward Fray was born on 14 May 1909, in Greenwich, New South Wales, Australia, his father, George FRAY Jr, was 28 and his mother, Charlotte Maria GREEN, was 28. He married Phyllis PHILP on 25 October 1938, in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 28 February 1963, in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 53, and was buried in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia.