Name
John Hardy Hobart Woolston Fisher
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/08/1915
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1919
Seaforth Highlanders
1st/6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT
I. F. 34.
France
Headstone Inscription
THY WILL BE DONE
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden,
Pre War
John Hardy Hobart Woolston was born to John Ernest, an electro-plater and Adeline Elizabeth (nee Woolston) in 1887 in Hobart, Tasmania. The family returned to England and on the 1891 Census were living at Crabtree Lane, Harpenden.
Wartime Service
John enlisted in 1/6 Battalion the Seaforth Highlanders as Private 1919, the issuing of service numbers in this and some other Highland Regiments follows no apparent pattern but his may indicate enlistment in Aug/Sep 1914.
He went to France on 1 May 1915 and his division was immediately rushed to Ypres during the 2nd Battle there. He was killed in action on 4 Aug 1915.
Additional Information
Mr A Rigby Fisher, Belmont Villa, Cowper Road, Harpenden, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "THY WILL BE DONE". War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £1 17s 8d paid to father.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
