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Private William Guildford Fisher (Service No:W88617) served in the ACMF with 9 Battalion VDC from 16 May 1943 to 31 December 1944 (Reserves List).

Eldest of nine children, Bill was born at Saints Station in Balaklava, South Australia in 1901 to William Edwin Fisher (b1874 at Grace Plains, Balaklava, South Australia) and Elizabeth Maria Quinlan (b1879 in Northam, Western Australia). William had gone to Western Australia in the late 1890s to take up prospecting in the Goldfields, and was in Northam in 1900 when he and Elizabeth married. They went to South Australia briefly before returning to Western Australia and settling at County Peak via Beverley, where they were amongst the first families to settle, and William was the first in the region to own a motor vehicle. William and Elizabeth raised their family in County Peak, where William was a Farmer. They retired to Beverley in 1926, and William operated a Taxi Service and served on the Beverley Road Board.

Bill was a Farmer in 1926 when he married his first wife, Gladys May Henderson (b1904 in Perth, Western Australia), and following Gladys' death in 1931, Bill remarried in 1936 to Neta Eileen Green (b1909 in Dangin, Western Australia). Bill and Neta settled  in Dangin via Quairading, where they raised their family and Bill was a Farmer. Neta died in 1947 and Bill in 2003.