Bertie Fisher

Sir Bertie Fisher
Born 13 July 1878
Died 24 July 1972 (aged 94)
Allegiance United Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service 1900 - 1938, 1939 - 1940
Rank Lieutenant General
Unit Second Boer War
World War I
World War II
Commands held Leicestershire Yeomanry
8th Infantry Brigade
17th/21st Lancers
2nd Cavalry Brigade
RMC Sandhurst
Southern Command
Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order

Lieutenant General Sir Bertie Drew Fisher, KCB, CMG, DSO (13 July 1878 24 July 1972) was a British Army General during World War II.

Military career

Fisher was commissioned into the 17th Lancers as Second lieutenant in 1900,[1] and was promoted to Lieutenant 29 July 1901.[2]

He served in the Second Boer War and then went to the Staff College in 1911.[1] In 1913 he learned to fly[3] and became a General Staff Officer in the Military Aeronautics Department at the War Office.[1]

He served in World War I initially as a Brigade Major in the 6th Cavalry Brigade, which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force[1] and then as a General Staff Officer in 1st Cavalry Division.[1] He was appointed Commanding Officer of the Leicestershire Yeomanry in 1915 and the Commander of 8th Infantry Brigade in 1918.[1]

After the War he was Commanding Officer of the 17th Lancers at the time of their amalgamation with 21st Lancers in 1922.[1]

He then became Commander of 2nd Cavalry Brigade in 1923 and Commandant of the Senior Officer School in 1927.[1] He was then a Brigadier on the General Staff at Aldershot Command from 1930 and Director Recruiting and Organisation at the War Office from 1932.[1] He became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1934 and retired in 1938.[1]

He was recalled from retirement during World War II to be General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Southern Command from 1939 to 1940 when he retired again.[1]

He lived in Basingstoke in Hampshire.[4]

Family

He married Majorie Frances Boyd and together they went on to have two sons.[4]

References

Military offices
Preceded by
Reginald May
Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst
19341937
Succeeded by
Ralph Eastwood
Preceded by
Sir Alan Brooke
GOC-in-C Southern Command
19391940
Succeeded by
Sir Alan Brooke
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