Peter Fisher
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 46874
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 03/05/1917
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Bn.)
Memorial: Arras Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, 4 Greenback Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Mother Agnes Fisher.
1901 census information:
Address: 6 Bouverie Street, Rutherglen.
Father: Peter (32) railway engine worker, born about 1869 in Glasgow.
Mother: Ellen (32) born about 1869 in Bolton, England.
Sister: Elizabeth (9) born about 1892 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Janet (7) born about 1894 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Ellen (5) born about 1896 in Rutherglen.
Self: Peter (3) born about 1898 in Rutherglen.
19a1 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Peter 42, Agnes 42, Elizabeth 19, Janet 17, Agnes 15 and Peter 13.
Newspaper transcript – Corpl. P. Fisher, Rutherglen. Mr and Mrs Fisher, 4 Greenbank St, Rutherglen, have received official information of the death in action of their son, Corporal Peter Fisher, Northumberland Fusiliers. Before enlisting he was a collector in the Rutherglen branch of the Scottish Legal Life Association. He was 19 years of age.
Also commemorated on the memorial at Wardlawhill Church, Rutherglen.
*Peter’s mother and sister were both called Agnes Ellen and obviously alternated names as can be seen in 1901 and 1911.