Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain E. Fisher, Durham Light Infantry

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., Durh. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.), mounted as worn; together with a Royal Life Saving Society Medal (E. Fisher June 1921), bronze, good very fine (4) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Durham Light Infantry and associated units.

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Ernest Fisher was born in 1890, the son of Rev. George Fisher, M.A. of Longtown, Cumberland. He was educated at Uppingham College and Armstrong College, Durham, gaining a B.Sc. and M.Sc. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant with the 8th (Territorial) Battalion Durham Light Infantry on 19 October 1914, he served in France/Flanders from 16 July 1915 until wounded at Armentières on 25 September 1915. He rejoined the 8th Battalion on the Somme in November 1916 until 16 January 1917 when he was wounded by a shell in camp at High Wood West. Promoted Lieutenant, then Captain on 14 August 1917, he was seconded to the Royal Engineers in the Inland Waterways and Docks, where he remained for the rest of the war. He was transferred to the Reserve of Officers on 29 January 1921, relinquishing his commission and retaining his rank on 13 June 1936. Fisher studied for Holy Ordes at St. Aidan’s College, Durham, from 1933 and was ordained Deacon in 1933 and Priest at Carlisle in 1934. He was appointed Curate of Christ Church, Whitehaven, 1933-36; Vicar of Castle Sowerby, 1936-48; Rector of Gilerux, 1948-57; Priest-in-Charge of St. James, Hayton, 1958-59 and Rector from 1959-65. Honorary Canon of Carlisle from 1960. Rev. Ernest Fisher died in Carlisle in 1972. Sold with copied research