Thursday 11 February 2010

9729 Pte Joseph Richard Fisher, 1st Bn, South Staffordshire Regt

9729 Private Joseph Richard Fisher of the 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, was killed in action on the 11th February 1915. He was born in Walsall and enlisted there in August 1914. He arrived in France on the 19th January 1915 and so had been overseas for less than a month when he was killed. He is buried in the Rue-David Military Cemetery at Fleurbaix.

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

Sources:

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

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