FISCHER, OTTO CARL Rank: Private Service No: V12947 Date of Death: 11/01/1945 Age: 55 Regiment/Service: Australian Army Medical Corps A.C.M.F. 115 Gen. Hospital Grave Reference: C. of E. Plt. Sc. Z. Jnt grv 1022-1023. (GRM/3). Cemetery: MELBOURNE GENERAL CEMETERY, CARLTON Additional Information: Son of August Carl and Matilda M. L. Fischer; husband of Emily S. R. Fischer, of St. Kilda.Casualty Details
Otto Carl FISCHER 1889–1945 BIRTH 11 JUN 1889 • Fitzroy, Victoria DEATH 11 JAN 1945 • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Otto Carl Fischer Birth: 11 Jun 1889 Death: 11 Jan 1945 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Marriage: 1914 - Victoria Spouse: Emily Sidwell Riverina Bates TD
Not a great deal to add, his service record has not been digitized as yet by the NAA but his entry on the AWM ROH lists his cause of death as Illness and his nominal roll entry shows that he enlisted in April 1941 and was discharged in April 1944
From the death announcements in the newspaper The Argus 12 Jan 45 (@ Trove website) On January 11(suddenly) at Melbourne. Otto Carl, the dearly loved husband of Emily (Dot) Fischer, loving father of Vickie, Dorothy (Mrs. T. E. Futcher), Gwynne, Margaret (Mrs. Dracup) and Ted, brother of Oscar and Margaret, aged 55 years.
