Profile

FISHER, James McNicol
(Service number 24884)

Aliases
First Rank		Last Rank	Driver

Birth

Date	16/08/1895	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Temuka
Occupation	Blacksmith
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Margaret Elizabeth FISHER (mother), 80 Denmark Street, Temuka
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	14th Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery, No 2 Field Battery
Date	26 June 1916
Transport	Tahiri or Manganui
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Field Artillery

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
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	30 October 1973	Age	77 years
Place of Death	Temuka
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 190, Plot 723
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

James McNicol Fisher was the second son of John Alexander and Elizabeth Margaret (née Dunford). He married Elizabeth Sarah Douglas on 20 June 1923 at Temuka. His brothers, Albert William Fisher and George Duncan Fisher, also served in World War I, as did his uncles - Charles Christopher Dunford and Edward Samuel Dunford.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Datasbase [19 July 2019]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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