FISHER, William Joseph
Service Number: | 922 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
Last Unit: | Railway Unit (AIF) |
Born: | Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, 1882 |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Perth, Western Australia., 15 December 1954, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Rose Gardens, Position 0087 |
Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
29 Jan 1917: | Involvement 922, Railway Unit (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: '' | |
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29 Jan 1917: | Embarked 922, Railway Unit (AIF), HMAT Miltiades, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He embarked from Fremantle for active service abroad on 29th January 1917 as part of the Reinforcements and Special Draft to the Railway Unit. He held the rank of 2nd Corporal (Service No. 922) and was a casualty of poisonous gas on a number of occasions resulting in the eventual loss of a lung. The only son to survive the war, he returned home to Australia in 1919 and was discharged medically unfit.
William died aged 72 years. His wife was Frances Ellen [Rudler] Fisher 1893–1960 (m. 1915)
A brother Benjamin fell in the Boer War and two brothers fell in France in the Great War-they were Private Osborne Fisher and Private Walter Stanley Fisher.
They were sons of William and Elizabeth Fisher of Western Australia.