Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Flying Officer Charles Harold Fisher is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Flying Officer Charles Harold Fisher is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star February 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star February 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Cemetery – Story of crash courtesy of Air War Over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com Lancaster III PB239 of 405 Sqn took off 21.15 Gransden Lodge on a mission to attack the port city of Kiel. It is believed that PB239 was claimed by a German night fighter and crashed in the North Sea south west of Denmark near the island of Sylt 17/8 1944 killing the whole crew. Today Pilot F/O Charles H. Fisher and W/OP WO1 Forest D. Billingsley rest in Kiel War Cemetery. Navigator F/L John S. Bruce RAF, Air Gnr. F/S Joseph W. Carter and F/L Maxwell B. Calhoun DFC have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. After about a week Air Bomber F/Lt Kenneth D. Kemp was washed ashore on the beach near Højer Sluse lock. The Germans left the body on the beach for 6-7 days before they buried it on the spot where it was found. On 9/1 1946 his remains were disinterred and taken to Fovrfelt cemetery in Esbjerg where he was laid to rest on 10/1-1946. Flt. Engr. Sgt Eric N. Jolly RAF and Air Gnr. F/O Kenneth A. Nordheimer were found washed ashore on the island of Rømø and were laid to rest in Kirkeby cemetery on 7/9 1944.

Distinguished Flying Cross – DFC citation FISHER, F/L Charles Harold (J19844) - Distinguished Flying Cross - No.405 Squadron (deceased) - Award effective 16 August 1944 as per London Gazette dated 12 February 1946 and AFRO 322/46 dated 29 March 1946. Born in Battleford, Saskatchewan, 1923. Home in Watrous, Saskatchewan. Student. Enlisted in Saskatoon, 20 September 1941. Trained at No.4 ITS (graduated 1 August 1942), No.5 EFTS (graduated 10 October 1942), and No.3 SFTS (graduated 11 October 1942 by DHist card; clearly not correct). Commissioned January 1944. Killed in action 16/17 August 1944 (Lancaster P239). Flight Lieutenant Fisher, as pilot, has completed numerous operations against the enemy, in the course of which he has invariably displayed the utmost fortitude, courage and devotion to duty.