FISHBOURNE Charles Eustace

Charles Fishbourne was born in 1885. He attended Malvern College in House 3 from September 1900 to 192.

De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour:
FISHBOURNE, Charles Eustace, Captain, Royal Engineers, eldest surviving son of the Reverend Alexander Fishbourne, Vicar of Gresford, by his wife, Harriet, daughter of the Venerable William Crawley, Archdeacon of Monmouth, and Rector of Bryngwyn, Monmouth; born Llandyssil Rectory, co. Montgomery, 15 January 1885; was educated St George’s, Windsor; and Malvern College; and after passing through Woolwich and Chatham, obtained his commission in the Royal Engineers, 21 December 1904, and was promoted Lieutenant 23 June, 1907. Subsequently he was employed under the Colonial Office from June, 1907 to 1908 in Uganda upon survey work, for which he was highly commended, and the Royal Geographical Society awarded him the Cuthbert Peek grant. In October 1909, he was appointed under the Board of Trade upon the London Traffic Commission, and on 4 January 1913 retired into the Special Reserve Royal Engineers on taking up a post as Assistant General Manager to the London General Omnibus Company. On the outbreak of war he rejoined, went to the Front with the 9th Field Company Royal Engineers, 21 August 1914, and served till 18 November 1914, when he was wounded at Ploegsteert Wood, and invalided home. On his recovery he was appointed Adjutant to the Royal Engineers Reserves at Chatham. He died at Field House, Beaconsfield, 10 June, 1915, of spotted fever contracted at Chatham. He married at Llanbedr, 8 June, 1911, Mary Elizabeth (89, Overstrand Mansions, Battersea, S.W.), daughter of William Gaskell Holland, and left two sons: Patrick Alexander, born 10 February 1913; and Charles Michael Eustace, born 2 November 1915. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir J. French’s Despatch of 14 January [London Gazette, 17 February] 1915.