John Fisher

John Fisher

3rd September 1916

Lance Cpl 200691 John Fisher – 1st /4th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) 17 Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd Lance Corporal John Fisher died on the 3rd September 1916. He was born in United States in 1895 to Mary Ann and Robert James Carruthers Fisher of Halifax. They lived at 18 Thompson Street, Halifax in 1901 and 31 Gibraltar Road Halifax in 1911. They then moved to 17 Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd where the family are recorded living until at least 1921. On the day of his death he was involved in the assault of the Schwaben Redoubt, a German stronghold near Thiepval with the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment. In all likelyhood he would have been with Herman Beverley, another Mytholmroyd lad of 19 who died in the same assault. Mill Road British Cemetery is located very close to the site of the Schwaben Redoubt, and this is his final resting place. Some of the headstones in the cemetery have to be laid flat due to subsidence from the many tunnels and dugouts which still lay beneath the surface. John would have been 21. He is remembered on a memorial in St Michael's Church, Mytholmroyd and also at Halifax Bowling Club, Thrum Hall.

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    Born 1895

    Died 1916

    British Army

    British Army 200691 Lance Corporal West Riding Regiment