Private George Edward Fisher
| Date of Birth | c. 1884 |
|---|---|
| Age at Death | 32 |
| Date of Death | 4 September 1916 |
| Service Number | 154 |
| Military Service | "A" Company, 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment |
| Merton Address | |
| Local Memorial | St. Mary's Church, Merton Park |
Additional Information
Born in the St.Pancras district of London on 5 August 1884, George was baptised at St. Andrew’s, Holborn on 12 October. He was the son of surveyor, Thomas Fisher and his wife Emily. The couple also had an older son, James and a younger child, Ewart.
By 1891 the family were living at 3 Gothic Villa on Robinson Road, Colliers Wood but they had moved to Harrowdene Road, Wembley by 1901. Family fortunes seem to have been improving in the years before the war. Thomas Fisher had become a superintending valuer for the Inland Revenue and George, now aged 25, was a surveyor in his own right. The 1911 census shows that he and his family were living in a nine room house called “Branksome”, at 50 Salisbury Road in the Moseley district of Birmingham, together with two cousins, Mary and Emily Smith and a domestic servant.
George seems to have enlisted in the army by 1915 and was a private in A Company, 15th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. His battalion was posted to France where George was wounded in action in 1916. He died of his wounds on 4 September and is buried at La Neuville British Cemetery near Corbie.
George is commemorated at St.Mary’s Church, Merton Park. His younger brother, Ewart and his new wife Adela, were then living at Chatsworth Avenue – just a short walk from the church. They remained in the Merton Park area, living at Watery Lane until Ewart’s death in 1958.