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Tracing Your Roots To Gallipoli

Remembering some of the Bolton men who lost their lives in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915

Albert Fisher

Albert FisherBolton Journal and Guardian 3 September 1915

Four Brothers. Three Killed in One Battle

Of the Four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. (sic) Fisher, 280, Deane Church-lane, Bolton, who have joined the forces, three have been killed and one has been wounded. The latter is Pte. Harry, of the 1/5th Battalion L.N.I., and he is the youngest of the quartet. He has been injured by shrapnel in the left ankle. He was an enthusiastic footballer, and played with one of the tradesmen’s clubs in the Bolton Wednesday League. The three who have been killed, Privates Albert, Matthew and Jack, were all members of the 6th L.N.L., and fell during two days hard fighting in the Dardanelles. Before the war all three were engaged as minders in Bolton Mills. Albert, who was the oldest, leaves a wife, Matthew a wife and four children, and Jack a wife and two children. All were well known in Deane, though Albert had latterly lived in St Anne-st., Halliwell-rd., and Matthew in Tonge Moor. Jack was a great swimmer, and recovered two of the three bodies of the Westhoughton children who were drowned at Rumworth over 12 months ago. He also recovered a little girl from a lodge close to his home. All the brothers enlisted when the war broke out, though Matthew had been in the Army previously, and taken part in the Boer War. Jack was formerly in the Bolton Military Band.

Albert was the son of John Fisher b.1859, a cotton spinner, and Mary Fisher b.1858.

Albert married Anne Ellen Brough b.1882 at St Matthew's Church, Bolton in 1904.

He was living with his wife at 37 Argyle Street in 1911. They had had two children but both had died.

Fisher Family

Back row: Harry, Albert, Matthew (in uniform) and John at the right.

Name Fisher, Albert
Rank Private
Number 17425
Unit 6th Bn
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Born Bolton, Lancashire c.1882
Enlisted Bolton, Lancashire
Died Gallipoli, Turkey
9 August 1915
Age 33
Grave or Memorial Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
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Loyal Nort Lancashire Regiment