Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the youngest son of Frank and Mary Ann Fisher. He began his education at Sudborough, Northamptonshire, completing it at Oakham, Rutland. On leaving school he first worked for a period of two years with Mr Charity who was a Baker, moving on he then worked for a short period with Mr Hart who was a Grocer, again he moved to work on Lord Londonderry’s estate at Springfield, and finally he was employed by a firm of engineers who were undertaking work for Lord Lonsdale at Barleythorpe. He was 17 ½ years of age when he volunteered and was one of the first young men to enlist with the 1st/5th Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment. He first proceeded to Loughborough, and when a bugle band was formed, he was one of the first to take a bugle. After some months he was sent to begin his training at Belton Camp, then moved to Bulwell and Basford, and completed it as Scotton Camp. He embarked for France on the 1st July 1916 and joined an entrenching battalion attached to the 5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, and was subsequently transferred to the 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. He then moved with his unit to the Somme and it was during an engagement near Beaumont-Hamel that he was severely wounded in the left hip by a piece of shrapnel. He was moved to the 3rd Canadian Hospital at Boulogne, but his wound had become infected and he subsequently passed away. From information received by his parents he was buried with Military Honours by the chaplain in charge at the hospital, in the Eastern Cemetery, Boulogne. In a sympathetic letter a nursing sister said:- “He was a dear boy, and every inch a soldier; never a word of complaint of what he was going through. . . I feel proud to think I belong to such a noble race.” Other sources show his first Christian name as Hubert, and also his place of birth as Langham, Rutland. His brother John also fell.