Fischer, Frank Reinhardt (Lieutenant, b.1888 - d.1918)

Collection relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Frank Reinhardt Fischer, 6 Battalion, France, 1917-1919. Collection consists of letters written home to family in Australia, including his sister Paula (Mrs Pauline White) and brother, Hugo. The letters to his sister Paula contain comforting words for her and her two children (Alan and Alick) now that they are on their own. As the Fischers were a noted musical family, many letters contain references to musical activities in London, Melbourne and others for serving men, which Fischer initiated, attended, or in which he participated. There are many references to Elsa Stralia, his sister. Fischer was killed in action at Lihons on 10 August 1918. The collection also contains condolence letters which are mostly addressed to Elsa Stralia and some bear her annotations. Fischer had a brother, Sergeant Harold Fischer, Otago Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who was killed at Gallipoli on 7 August 1915.

• Letters from Frank Reinhardt Fischer to his family, 1917
• Letters from Frank Reinhardt Fischer to his family, 1918
• Letters relating to the death of Frank Reinhardt Fischer, 1918
• Instrument of appointment as an officer of the land forces of the Commonwealth, 1917