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262929 Pte. John William Fisher British Army 1st Btn. Cheshire Regiment from:Malpas This was my father, who was born on the 26th May 1921. He was from Cheshire and enlisted in the 1st Cheshire Regiment in 1938, I believe. I am his eldest daughter. He served in North Africa under Field Marshal Montgomery. I remember him telling me a story about how he hid under a petrol tank he was driving for three days whilst the Germans were bombing his Army unit. He told me about Egypt and the camels there. He was also in Malta for 3 years, surrounded by Germans u-boats and under bombardment by the Italians. I am led to believe that he returned to Britain for a few months in 1944, when he met my mother. He was then sent to Germany to serve as an Army scout on a motorbike, a lookout for the Cheshire Regiment. He found German villagers to be quite friendly. His horror story was that he was with the 1st Cheshires when they helped liberate the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. I know he was there – he told me so – but he wouldn’t talk of the horrors he witnessed. My father was a cruel man to me as a child, using the buckle strap on me regularly. He was also very cruel to animals. My mother told me that he suffered from shell-shock and could not help how he was with me with his vile temper. As a child, and also as an adult, I was afraid of him. Now that I’m older and have researched and read about my father’s war I forgive him and realise that he went through a lot of horror. I now not only forgive him, I am also very proud of him and his service with the 1st Cheshires during the war. God bless all who served in that war. I know that my father came out of the Army in 1945, sooner than he was supposed to have done, but he wanted to marry my mother. So he had a choice to work on the farm or in the coal mines. He chose farm life. This was the only specification he had on leaving the Army early: he had no choice in his job. Mrs. Jacqueline Ann Chamberlain (nee Fisher) Add to this record.  Related Content: Cheshire Regiment 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

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