Lance Corporal Claude William Fisher

Army Number: 89175

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Nottingham and lived at 12, North Street, Beeston, Nottingham. Husband of Hattie Fisher. He was a lace designer before enlisting on 8th December 1915 at Long Eaton, Derbyshire. He was posted to the 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and went to France on 16th October 1917. He was posted to the 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. 8th February 1918. He suffered gunshot wounds to his back, on 22nd April 1918 and was treated at 56 Casualty Clearing Station, Gezaincourt, France, on 23rd April 1918. He was transferred to No 18 General Hospital Camiers, France, on 24th April 1918 and was transferred to England on Hospital Ship Violet de Liege, 29th April 1918 and treated to Southern General Hospital Plymouth. He returned to France on 14th August 1918. He was appointed Lance Corporal, on 8th September 1918. and was killed in action, on 18th September 1918, aged 33, during the British attack on the German positions near Lechelle, France.

Commemorated: Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France. Panel 7.

Lance Corporal Claude William Fisher is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Baptist Church War Memorial, Beeston, Nottingham.