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Bertie Fisher

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of the Senior Officer School in 1927. 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. He became
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After the war, Fisher was the commander of the 17th Lancers at the time of their amalgamation with the
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in 1922. He took command of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade in 1923 and was the
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Fisher was recalled from retirement during the Second World War to be
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on 29 July 1901. Following the end of the war, he returned from
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Fisher married Majorie Frances Boyd; they had two sons.
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from 1939 to 1940, when he retired again. He lived in
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Fisher went to the Staff College in 1911. In 1913 he
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Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Index

British Army
Lieutenant General
Service number
17th Lancers
Southern Command
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Senior Officers' School
17th/21st Lancers
8th Infantry Brigade
Leicestershire Yeomanry
Second Boer War
First World War
Second World War
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order
Lieutenant General
KCB
CMG
DSO
British Army
Second World War
commissioned
17th Lancers
second lieutenant
Second Boer War
lieutenant
Cape Town
learned to fly
General Staff Officer

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