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Samuel Alfred Suddaby Fisher was born in Holme on the Wolds on 10 Oct 1892. His father William Fisher was a shepherd from Holme on Spalding Moor; his mother, Mary Hannah Teal Ellerker, born in 1867 was from Holme on the Wolds and daughter of a joiner and local Methodist preacher. Samuel was one of three children and as was customary at the time for farm workers, the family had regularly moved, living in Nafferton shortly before his birth. Samuel also became a farm worker and in the 1911 census is recorded as a plough boy on Gardham Farm, Etton.
On 6 Jul 1913 at St Mary’s Church in Beverley, Samuel married Ethel Warriner, born in Beverley in 1896, and living at 23 Mill Lane. Their first child Ada was born 12 Aug 1913 and Doris and Donald followed in Jul 1914 and Oct 1915 respectively. Immediately before the war the family was living in Dalton Holme to the north west of Beverley.
Samuel enlisted on 29 Jul 1915 at Beverley and joined the Royal Field Artillery as a gunner, training in the Newcastle area. From 8 Feb 1916 to late Aug 1917, as part of 38th battery, he was in India, largely in the Rawalpindhi areas. He then served in Mesopotamia from late Aug 1917 to late Apr 1919, his 44th Battery RFA, attached to the Indian Expeditionary Force that was in charge of the campaign there against the Turks. He returned to the UK in May 1919 but was not demobilized until Mar 1920, having recorded 4 years and 247 days continuous service. He was described by his commanding officer as being, “sober, honest and hardworking” with no instances of drunkenness whilst in service. He was awarded the War and Victory medals.
After the war Samuel returned to Beverley and in the 1939 Register is recorded as a Steam Roller Driver, possibly for the County Council, a job that his father-in-law also did. In total Samuel and Ethel had twelve children, the last born in 1937, by which time the family home was in The Causeway, Beverley. In WW2 Samuel served in the Beverley ARP Demolition and Rescue Service. Samuel died in the spring of 1977; Ethel died the previous year.
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