Alfred Henry (Alf) FISHER

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FISHER, Alfred Henry

Service Number:	W75644
Enlisted:	8 April 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	15 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Beverley, Western Australia, 20 October 1910
Home Town:	Kununoppin, Shire of Trayning, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Shearer
Died:	Northam, Western Australia, 27 July 1980, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Kununoppin Cemetery, Trayning Shire, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

8 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W75644, 15 Infantry Battalion AMF
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W75644, 15 Infantry Battalion AMF

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Alfred Henry Fisher (Service No:W75644) served in the ACMF with 15 Battalion VDC from 8 April 1942 to 31 July 1944 (Reserves List).

Alf was born in Beverley, Western Australia in 1910, fifth of nine children of William Edwin Fisher (b1874 at Grace Plains, Balaklava, South Australia) and Elizabeth Maria Quinlan (b1879 in Northam, Western Australia). William went to Western Australia in the late 1890s to prospect on the Goldfields, and was in Northam in 1900 when he and Elizabeth married. William and Elizabeth were briefly in South Australia before returning by 1904 o Western Australia, where they settled at County Peak via Beverley. Pioneers in the County Peak District, William was a Farmer and one of the first in the District to own a motor vehicle. William and Elizabeth retired from the property in 1926, settling in Beverley where William ran a Taxi Service and was a member of the Beverley Roads Board.

Alf worked as a Farm Hand at Hines Hill via Northam, and in 1941 in Kununoppin via Toodyay married Nellie (Nell) Dickinson (b1901 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia) - Nell was a Waitress at the Commercial Hotel in Mt Magnet. Alf nd Nell settled in Kununoppin, where Alf was a Shearer. Nell died in 1973 and Alf in 1980.

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