Bertie Fisher

Lieutenant General Sir Bertie Drew Fisher, KCB, CMG, DSO (13 July 1878 – 1972) was a British Army General during World War II.

Military career
Fisher was commissioned into the 17th Lancers as Second lieutenant in 1900, and was promoted to Lieutenant 29 July 1901.

He served in the Second Boer War and then went to the Staff College in 1911. In 1913 he learned to fly and became a General Staff Officer in the Military Aeronautics Department at the War Office.

He served in World War I initially as a Brigade Major in the 6th Cavalry Brigade, which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force and then as a General Staff Officer in 1st Cavalry Division. He was appointed Commanding Officer of the Leicestershire Yeomanry in 1915 and the Commander of 8th Infantry Brigade in 1918.

After the War he was Commanding Officer of the 17th Lancers at the time of their amalgamation with 21st Lancers in 1922.

He then became Commander of 2nd Cavalry Brigade in 1923 and Commandant of the Senior Officer School in 1927. He was then a Brigadier on the General Staff at Aldershot Command from 1930 and Director Recruiting and Organisation at the War Office from 1932. He became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1934 and retired in 1938.

He was recalled from retirement during World War II to be General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Southern Command from 1939 to 1940 when he retired again.

He lived in Basingstoke in Hampshire.

Family
He married Majorie Frances Boyd and together they went on to have two sons.