Hugh Addison FISHER

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FISHER, Hugh Addison

Service Number:	290
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry
Born:	Traralgon, Victoria, Australia, 1873
Home Town:	Yarragon, Baw Baw, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Yarragon, Victoria Australia, 16 June 1916, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Yarragon Cemetery, Victoria
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 290, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

Hugh Addison Fisher was born in 1873 in the Traralgon district in Victoria to Hugh Addison Fisher and Jane Fisher nee Gallaeher. Its not know why he was in Queensland when he enlisted in the 3rd Queensland Contingent for the South African (Boer) War.

Upon returning to Australia and following his discharge he returned to live in Yarragon, Victoria. He married Elsie Christina Brown in 1908 and they had two children prior to his untimely passing in 1916.

(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 473; and BDM Victoria registration records).

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