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Arthur Fisher was born in Beverley on 20 Jan 1893 and was baptised as a Methodist on 20 Apr 1893. He was one of five children born to George Fisher originally from Holme on Spalding Moor, and his second wife, Rachel Ballinger who hailed from Gloucestershire. They married in 1884, a year after George’s first wife, Maria died, having already had three children. George was a market gardener. In the early 1890s the family home was on Butt Lane, Beverley but they later moved to New Houses on Beckside, now part of Blucher Lane. Arthur became a farm labourer and in the 1911 census is recorded as a waggoner on a farm at Leconfield. Later Arthur worked at the Beverley shipyard.
Arthur served in the East Yorkshire Regiment, either in the 13th and then the 11th Battalions or the 11th and then the 10th. These were the Hull Pals Battalions raised in 1914 in Hull. In Dec 1915 he was sent to Egypt to strengthen the Suez Canal from Turkish incursions but in Mar 1916 the Hull Pals were assigned to the Western Front in France. They served on the Somme in 1916 and at Arras in April/May 1917 and it is likely that Arthur would have survived the bloody actions at Serre in November 1916 and at Oppy Wood on 3 May 1917. He reached the rank of corporal. He was awarded the War and Victory medals.
After the war Arthur worked as a plater’s labourer or shipwright’s labourer at the Beverley shipyard. Initially he lived on Beckside but on 9 Sep 1926 he married Charlotte Ellen Beach of 27 Beaver Road at St Nicholas’ Church in Beverley. They had no children of their own. Arthur died in May 1981, aged 88, and was buried at the Queensgate Cemetery on 12 May.
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