FISHER, Benjamin
| Service Number: | 335 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry |
| Born: | Murrumburrah, New South Wales, Australia, 19 August 1880 |
| Home Town: | Rockingham, Rockingham, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Brakpan, South Africa, Carolina, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 15 May 1901, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Middleburg Cemetery, South Africa Initially buried in the field, body exhumed sometime during early-mid 20th century and interred at Middleburg Cemetry |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, WA Kings Park Boer War Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 335 | |
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| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 335, 6 Mounted Infantry Contingent | |
| 10 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 335, 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry | |
| 15 May 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 335, 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry, Killed in Action. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
His brothers, Osborne Fisher and Walter Stanley Fisher fell in WWI, and another brother, William Joseph Fisher-b 1882 also served.
William 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
They were sons of William and Elizabeth Fisher of Western Australia.
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