Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Herbert Fisher

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Nottingham. Son of Horace Arthur and Sarah Kate Fisher, of Arno Vale, Nottingham. Educated at Malvern and Clare College, Cambridge. He enlisted into the Canadian Light Horse on the outbreak of war and served until he gained a commission with the Sherwood Foresters as Second Lieutenant on 23rd June 1915. He was seriously wounded by a German grenade in both thighs and left arm during attacks at Hohenzollern Redoubt and the Big Willie trench system, France. He died of wounds on 25th October 1915, aged 26, at No. 6 General Hospital, Etaples, France.

Buried: Etaples Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1. Row A. Grave 13.

Second Geoffrey Herbert Lieutenant Fisher is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Arnot Hill Park War Memorial, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
St. Paul’s Church War Memorial, Daybrook, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Captain John Wilfred Fisher, D.S.O. 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.