Herbert Roscoe Fisher

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772243

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Commemorated at:

Holy Trinity Anglican Church

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Wentworth

Birth city:

Hamilton, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

Tutela P.O., Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

192 Erie Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Carpenter

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Wounded

BX May 12, 1917

Wounded

Mr. Peter Fisher, 192 Erie Ave., received the word this morning that his son, Private Herbert Roscoe Fisher, who went overseas with the first battalion from the 38th D.R.C., had been wounded. The report said that he was suffering from a gunshot wound in the left arm and compound fracture. He is now in the 7th General Hospital at St. Omer. Pte. Fisher was in his 17th year and learning his trade at carpentering when the call of duty struck home.

BX September 1, 1917

This morning’s casualty list contains the names of four Brantford men – David Edward Stewart, William Gordon Allison, Edward Groat, Herbert Fisher – all reported wounded. Pte. Groat went overseas with the Haldimand County Battalion. Pte. Allison is a Burford boy, a painter by trade and he went overseas with the first overseas Battalion from the 38th Dufferin Rifles.

BX October 9, 1917

Returned Soldiers

The following men were expected to leave Halifax on Monday, October 8 and may reach Toronto on Wednesday, October 10: Sergeant Percy Unsworth, Cpl. William Neil McKinnon, Privates Albert Leopold Aldred, Herbert Roscoe Fisher, Oscar Burton Fennell, Earl Hutchinson, Stanley Shoebottom.