Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War O.B.E. and post-War Order of St. John group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Fisher, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches for services with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer‘s (Brother’s) breast badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; 1914-15 Star (Major W. H. Fisher. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major W. H. Fisher.); Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; Territorial Decoration, silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1921, with integral top riband bar; St. John Service Medal, with 1 Additional Award Bar (5280 D. Surg. W. H. Fisher. (Clethorpes & Dist.) Div.No. 5. Dist. Stab 1920) mounted court-style as worn, traces of lacquer, good very fine or better (9) £400-£500

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Officer, Order of St. John London Gazette 2 January 1931.

T.D. London Gazette 13 October 1922.

Walter Henderson Fisher was born on 19 September 1876 and was educated at Cambridge and the London Hospital. Qualifying as M.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. in 1902, he graduated M.B. B.Ch.Camb. in 1903 and proceeded M.D. seven years later, joining the Territorial Army and serving with the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance. During the Great War, he entered the Egypt Theatre on 24 June 1915, continuing in this theatre during the War. For his services during the Great War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 3 June 1919) and appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Post-War Fisher continued to serve with Territorials, joining the 5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment and attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1922. He also served as an examiner for the St John Ambulance Association, and was appointed Assistant Commissioner of the Brigade. He died on 28 September 1935

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