BORN WITHERNWICK 19/12/1892. ENLISTED HORNSEA. SON OF GEORGE FISHER & ROASAMOND HUTCHINSON – GLEBE FARM WITHERNWICK. LISTED AS A HULL CASUALTY IN HDM 03/05/1918. HAS A MEMORIAL PLAQUE IN ST ALBAN’S CHURCH, WITHERNWICK AND IS LISTED ON THE VILLAGE MEMORIAL.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE GEORGE FENBY FISHER 22126. Born 19th December 1892, the third of twelve children and eldest son of George and Rosamund Fisher of 80 North End, Withernwick, East Yorkshire. George was a Farm Labourer prior to enlistment. He was killed in action on 3rd May 1917 during the fighting for Oppy Wood and his body was never recovered. His name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He was 24 years old. There is something strangely ironic about these farm boys living below ground in fields not unlike those back home. On another day in another time, George would have ploughed just such a field whilst the Lapwings danced and Crows cawed from the tops of trees just like those he faced that day. He would have breathed clean spring air with just a hint of salt from the Humber Estuary. Only these trees were no haven of shade and shelter, these trees were bound with barbed wire and nested in their branches were machine guns. He must have died in a cruel and twisted unreality, a mockery of the life he’d known.
