Saturday 23 January 2010

22200 L/Sgt John Fisher, 12th Bn, Suffolk Regt

22200 Lance-Sergeant John Fisher of the 12th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, was killed in action on the 23rd January 1917. He was born in Glasgow and enlisted in Northampton. His number indicates that he joined the Suffolks around the 20th October 1915. He is buried in the Guards' Cemetery in Combles.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War

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