William Joseph FISHER

FISHER, William Joseph

Service Number: 922
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
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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: ''
29 Jan 1917: Embarked 922, Railway Unit (AIF), HMAT Miltiades, Fremantle

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Biography 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. 

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