Bertie Fisher

Lieutenant General Sir Bertie Drew Burdett Fisher, KCB, CMG, DSO (13 July 1878 – 24 July 1972) was a British Army general during the Second World War.

[3] Following the end of the war, he returned from Cape Town to England in the SS Maplemore in August 1902.

[2] He served in the First World War, initially as a brigade major in the 6th Cavalry Brigade, which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force,[2] and then, after serving as commander of the Leicestershire Yeomanry in 1915, as general staff officer, grade 1 (GSO1), essentially chief of staff, of the 1st Cavalry Division, holding this post from August 1915 until January 1918.

[2][6] He was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel while holding his appointment.

[2] 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.