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FISHER, George Duncan
(Service number 9/279)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Corporal

Birth

Date	19 August 1890	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Kapuka
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	John A. FISHER (father), Kapuka, Southland
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Ruapehu or Hawkes Bay
Embarked From	Port Chalmers, Dunedin	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Mounted Rifles

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	13 June 1958	Age	68 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 200, Plot 11
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

George Duncan Fisher was the oldest son of John Alexander and Elizabeth Margaret (née Dunford). His brothers, Albert William Fisher and James McNicol 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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