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FISHER, Charles
(Service number 8/3579)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Corporal

Birth

Date	09/03/1891	Place of Birth	Waipatu, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date	19 October 1915	Age	21
Address at Enlistment	Waihapatu, New Zealand
Occupation	Sawmill Hand
Previous Military Experience	Compulsory Military Training, under the Defence Act 1909. Riverton New Zealand
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs S. Fisher (Mother), Wakatipu, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information	Examination Passed Fit For Service

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	9th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company
Date	1 August 1916
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Pioneer Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European
Service Medals	British War Medal, Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	18 June 1917	Age	26
Place of Death	Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Berks Cemetery Extension, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium
Memorial Reference	III. A. 33
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Son of William and Sarah Fisher, of Colic Bay, Southland, New Zealand

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [27/08/2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. 5830385860779222418 [29 August 2013]

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