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Regiment: Royal Engineers.
Died: 10 June 1915 aged 30 in United Kingdom. Died at Chatham.
Cemetery: Gresford All Saints Denbighshire SW Corner
Son of Rev. E. A. Fishbourne, Gresford Vicarage, Wrexham. b. 1885.
Upper Modern II — Army I. House Scholar. School Prefect.
XXII Football; House XI Cricket.
R.M.A. Woolwich; R.E. 1904; Lieutenant 1907; employed on
Railway Survey, Uganda and E. African Protectorates, 1907—9; under
Board of Trade 1909—12; retired 1913; Asst. Commercial Manager
London General Omnibus Co. Ltd. 1913; Cuthbert Peek Grant,
Royal Geographical Society, 1910.
Great War, rejoined 1914 (over
seas). Despatches.
'After passing through Woolwich and Chatham he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in December 1904, and subsequently was employed under the Colonial Office from June 1907 to November 1908 in Uganda upon important survey work, for which he was highly commended, and the Royal Geographical Society awarded him the Cuthbert Peek Grant. In October 1909 he was appointed under the Board of Trade upon the London Traffic Commission. In January 1913 he retired into the Special Reserve, R.E., on taking up a post as Assistant General Manager to the London General Omnibus Company.' (Malvernian, Jul 1915).
On the outbreak of the war he rejoined, went to the Front with the 9th Field Company R.E., 21st August 1914, and served till 18th November 1914, when he was wounded at Ploegsteert Wood, and invalided home. On his recovery he was appointed Adjutant to the R.E. Reserves at Chatham. He died at Field House, Beaconsfield, 10th June 1915, of Spotted Fever contracted at Chatham. He married at Llanbedr on the 8th June 1911 to Mary Elizabeth Holland, 89, Overstrand Mansions, Battersea, S.W., daughter of William Gaskell Holland and left two sons, Patrick Alexander, born 10th February 1913; and Charles Michael Eustace, born 2nd November 1915.
Detailed biography
Service record: WO 339/6109