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Private Henry Raymond Fisher

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Private Henry Raymond Fisher Veteran

Birth
Dumbarton, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada
Death
1 May 1915 (aged 32)
Ypres, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium
Burial
Poperinge, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium Add to Map
Plot
II. L. 4.
Memorial ID
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Service No: 25710
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry, 14th Bn.

Son of Charles and Mary E. Fisher, of Rolling Dam, Charlotte County, New Brunswick.

Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
FISHER, HENRY RAYMOND, Corporal, No. 25710, 14th Battalion (1st Royal Montreal Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force, son of Charles Frederic Fisher, of Rollingdam, New Brunswick, Farmer, by his wife, Mary Ellen, daughter of Henry Johnston, of Rollingdam; b. Rollingdam, 1 April, 1883; educated Rollingdam School; was for 15 years with the Canadian Pacific Railway as a fireman and engineer; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and enlisted at Montreal; came over with the first Canadian Contingent in Oct.; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France on 15 Feb.; took part in the Battle of Ypres, where the 14th Battalion is said to have saved the day, and died 2 May, 1915, from shrapnel wounds in the head, received in action in the reserve trenches. He was buried in Poperinghe Cemetery. His brother, Lance-Corporal Charles D. Fisher, 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) is now (1916) on active service in France.
Other borther and sisters:
Ruby Fisher 1888 marital status unknown
Chester Richard Fisher Apr 22 1891-Oct 26 1960. Unmarried.
Jessie Kathryn Fisher (1898-1981) of St. Stephen, daughter of Charles Frederick Fisher and Mary Ellen Johnston of Rolling Dam. She married Hazen Lewis Dougherty and they had five children. Credit: Douglas Dougherty.
No FIND A GRAVE files found for any of them.
Service No: 25710
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry, 14th Bn.

Son of Charles and Mary E. Fisher, of Rolling Dam, Charlotte County, New Brunswick.

Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
FISHER, HENRY RAYMOND, Corporal, No. 25710, 14th Battalion (1st Royal Montreal Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force, son of Charles Frederic Fisher, of Rollingdam, New Brunswick, Farmer, by his wife, Mary Ellen, daughter of Henry Johnston, of Rollingdam; b. Rollingdam, 1 April, 1883; educated Rollingdam School; was for 15 years with the Canadian Pacific Railway as a fireman and engineer; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and enlisted at Montreal; came over with the first Canadian Contingent in Oct.; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France on 15 Feb.; took part in the Battle of Ypres, where the 14th Battalion is said to have saved the day, and died 2 May, 1915, from shrapnel wounds in the head, received in action in the reserve trenches. He was buried in Poperinghe Cemetery. His brother, Lance-Corporal Charles D. Fisher, 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) is now (1916) on active service in France.
Other borther and sisters:
Ruby Fisher 1888 marital status unknown
Chester Richard Fisher Apr 22 1891-Oct 26 1960. Unmarried.
Jessie Kathryn Fisher (1898-1981) of St. Stephen, daughter of Charles Frederick Fisher and Mary Ellen Johnston of Rolling Dam. She married Hazen Lewis Dougherty and they had five children. Credit: Douglas Dougherty.
No FIND A GRAVE files found for any of them.


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