Frederick Fisher VC
Born: August 3, 1894, St. Catharines, Ontario
Died: April 23, 1915, St Julien, Ypres salient, Belgium
Cause of death: Actions in the Second Battle of Ypres
Burial plot: His body was not recovered. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate in Belgium
Occupation: Soldier
Fisher is remembered by two plaques; the first, laid in 1917, is at the Royal Highlanders of Canada Armories in Montreal, while the other, laid in 1970 by the Royal Canadian Legion, is in Memorial Park at St. Catharines, his town of birth
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Lance-Corporal Frederick Fisher Born August 3 1895 in St. Catharines, Ontario Died April 23 1915, Ypres, Belgium First Canadian-born soldier to be awarded the prestigious Victoria Cross.
Victoria Cross Citation:
On 23rd April, 1915, in the neighbourhood of St. Julien, he went forward with the machine gun, of which he was in charge, under heavy fire, and most gallantly assisted in covering the retreat of a battery, losing four men of his gun team. Later, after obtaining four more men, he went forward again to the firing line and was himself killed while bringing his machine gun into action under very heavy fire, in order to cover the advance of support.
— The London Gazette, 22 June 1915
