Thomas Percy Fisher

A Lance Sergeant with the 1st Battalion, Thomas died on 5th of July 1918, at the age of 25.

Thomas was born at Norwich on 14 February 1893, a son of Thomas and Selina Fisher. In 1901 his family lived at 4 Church Close, Heigham, Norwich, and by 1911 they had moved to live at 1 Mill Lane, Pakefield. 

Thomas worked as a steam sawyer before enlisting in the Army, joining the Suffolk Regiment. He initially enlisted in 1910 and the 1911 Census shows him with the 2nd Battalion at Aldershot. 

Thomas married Florence Mabel Bears at Ditchingham (Broome?) in December 1914. Thomas and Florence lived at 6 Marine Terrace, London Road, Lowestoft. 

It is not clear whether Thomas was an Army Reserve when the First World War began, but he returned to serve with the Suffolk Regiment and he arrived in France on 16 February 1915 to join the 1st Battalion. He was initially reported to be missing (War Office list 1 June 1915) and later confirmed as being a prisoner of war (War Office list 2 December 1915). Red Cross records show that Thomas suffered from neurasthenia and he was allowed to go to interment at Switzerland, rather than being held in a POW camp. By 27 November 1917 he was interred at Chateau d'Oex and this is where he died, from pneumonia, on 5 July 1918. 

Husband of Florence Mabel Clarke (formerly Fisher) of 10 Prospect Place Pakefield Lowestoft.