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Lieutenant Walde Gerard Fisher

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Lieutenant Walde Gerard Fisher

Birth
Horsham, Horsham Rural City, Victoria, Australia
Death
5 Apr 1918 (aged 23)
France
Burial
Heilly, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France Add to Map
Plot
Plot H. Row I. Grave 15.
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Walde was Dux of Ipswich Grammar School and a brilliant all-round student at school and university. He was killed on the Western Front at Sailly-le-Sec in 1918, shortly after hearing he had won a scholarship to Oxford.
Service Number: 1787
Enlisted: 28 February 1916, Brisbane, Queensland
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 42nd Infantry Battalion
Born: Horsham, Victoria, Australia, 24 August 1894
Home Town: Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Ipswich Grammar School & St Johns College, University of Queensland, Australia
Occupation: Undergraduate Student
Died: Killed In Action, France, 5 April 1918, aged 23 years
Cemetery: Heilly Station Cemetery
Plot II, Row 1, Grave 15
Memorials: Brisbane 42nd Infantry Battalion AIF Roll of Honour, Redcliffe Humpybong Roll of Honor, University of Queensland WW1 Roll of Honour, Woody Point Honour Roll
Walde was Dux of Ipswich Grammar School and a brilliant all-round student at school and university. He was killed on the Western Front at Sailly-le-Sec in 1918, shortly after hearing he had won a scholarship to Oxford.
Service Number: 1787
Enlisted: 28 February 1916, Brisbane, Queensland
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 42nd Infantry Battalion
Born: Horsham, Victoria, Australia, 24 August 1894
Home Town: Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Ipswich Grammar School & St Johns College, University of Queensland, Australia
Occupation: Undergraduate Student
Died: Killed In Action, France, 5 April 1918, aged 23 years
Cemetery: Heilly Station Cemetery
Plot II, Row 1, Grave 15
Memorials: Brisbane 42nd Infantry Battalion AIF Roll of Honour, Redcliffe Humpybong Roll of Honor, University of Queensland WW1 Roll of Honour, Woody Point Honour Roll

Gravesite Details

Lieutenant, 42nd Battalion, Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Killed in action. Son of C. R. and Rhoda Edith Fisher, of The Rectory, Redcliffe, Queensland. Native of Horsham, Victoria, Australia. Age: 23.


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  • Maintained by: Cobber
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 6, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56162066/walde_gerard-fisher: accessed ), memorial page for Lieutenant Walde Gerard Fisher (24 Aug 1894–5 Apr 1918), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56162066, citing Heilly Station Cemetery, Heilly, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France; Maintained by Cobber (contributor 50072026).