Age: 20
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 2nd Bde.
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:
FYSHE, FRANCIS, Lieutenant, 7th Battery, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd son of the late Thomas Fyshe, General Manager, Merchants Bank of Canada, by his wife, Airs, daughter of Thomas Leigh Leonoweus; b. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 7 Dec. 1894; educated Creighton School, Montreal, and the Royal Military College, Kingston; gazetted Lieutenant Canadian Field Artillery, 1 Aug. 1914; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war; came over with the First Contingent, 3rd Oct. 1914; went to France, 15 June, 1915, and was killed in action near Messines, 27 Nov. 1915; unmarried. Buried at Romarin, Belgium.
Age: 20
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 2nd Bde.
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:
FYSHE, FRANCIS, Lieutenant, 7th Battery, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd son of the late Thomas Fyshe, General Manager, Merchants Bank of Canada, by his wife, Airs, daughter of Thomas Leigh Leonoweus; b. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 7 Dec. 1894; educated Creighton School, Montreal, and the Royal Military College, Kingston; gazetted Lieutenant Canadian Field Artillery, 1 Aug. 1914; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war; came over with the First Contingent, 3rd Oct. 1914; went to France, 15 June, 1915, and was killed in action near Messines, 27 Nov. 1915; unmarried. Buried at Romarin, Belgium.
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