FISHER F

FISHER, Frank John

Regiment: 103 Sqn. Royal Air Force

Rank: Sergeant – Flight Engineer

Died: 21 December 1942

Aged: 19

Buried/ Memorial: Mauberge Centre Cemetery, France

Address: 30 Hoole Road, Hoole

Cheshire Observer 30 January 1943

MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED

NEWS OF FLT. ENGINEER SGT. F.J. FISHER, R.A.F.

“Sincere sympathy will be felt with Mr and Mrs S.S. Fisher of 30 Hoole Road, Hoole, in the sad news they have received, through the International Red Cross, that their son, Flt Engineer Sgt Frank John Fisher, R.A.F., has been killed in action. The official report is that he is now regarded as “Missing, believed killed.”

Sergt Frank Fisher was 19 years old and was educated at the King’s School, Chester. He entered the R.A.F. by examination held in 1939, before the War broke out. After undergoing training at R.A.F. technical schools he passed into the service as an engineer at various maintenance units. He applied to transfer to an aircrew as flight engineer some months ago, and was posted to an operational unit. He made many operational flights over enemy territory. He was due to come home on leave on December 23rd, and thus would have spent Christmas with his family.

His elder brother, Sergt N.S. Fisher, R.A.F., was reported missing from an operational flight in September 1941, and is now a prisoner of war in Germany.”