Bertie Fisher

Fisher was commissioned into the 17th Lancers as second lieutenant on 23 May 1900,[1] and served in the Second Boer War, during which he was promoted to lieutenant on 29 July 1901.[2] Following the end of the war, he returned from Cape Town to England in the SS Maplemore in August 1902.[3]

He went to the Staff College in 1911.[1] In 1913 he learned to fly[4] 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.[5]

He married Majorie Frances Boyd and together they went on to have two sons.[5]