Sir Bertie Fisher | |
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Born | 13 July 1878 |
Died | 24 July 1972 | (aged 94)
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | British Army |
Years of service | 1900–1938 1939–1940 |
Rank | Lieutenant General |
Service number | 6400[1] |
Unit | 17th Lancers |
Commands held | Southern Command (1939–40) Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1934–38) Senior Officers' School (1927–30) 2nd Cavalry Brigade (1923–27) 17th/21st Lancers (1922–23) 8th Infantry Brigade (1918–19) Leicestershire Yeomanry (1915) |
Battles/wars | Second Boer War First World War Second World War |
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 Burdett Fisher, KCB, CMG, DSO (13 July 1878 – 24 July 1972) was a British Army general during the Second World War.
Fisher was commissioned into the 17th Lancers as second lieutenant on 23 May 1900,[2] and served in the Second Boer War, during which he was promoted to lieutenant on 29 July 1901.[3] Following the end of the war, he returned from Cape Town to England in the SS Maplemore in August 1902.[4]
Fisher went to the Staff College in 1911.[2] In 1913 he learned to fly,[5] and became a General Staff Officer in the Military Aeronautics Department at the War Office.[2] He served in the First World War, initially as a brigade major in the 6th Cavalry Brigade, which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force,[2] and then as a General Staff Officer in 1st Cavalry Division.[2] He was appointed commanding officer of the Leicestershire Yeomanry in 1915 and the commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade in 1918.[2]
After the war, Fisher was the commander of the 17th Lancers at the time of their amalgamation with the 21st Lancers in 1922.[2] He took command of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade in 1923 and was the commandant of the Senior Officer School in 1927.[2] 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.[2] He became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1934 and retired in 1938.[2]
Fisher was recalled from retirement during the Second World War to be General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Southern Command from 1939 to 1940, when he retired again.[2] He lived in Basingstoke in Hampshire.[6]
Fisher married Majorie Frances Boyd; they had two sons.[6]