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Robert Frank Fisher was born on 30 December 1914 in Swindon, Wiltshire, the son of Frank Fisher (b.1884) and Mary Ann Fisher née Pressdee (1888-1970). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1915 in the Swindon Registration District, Wiltshire.

On the 1921 census return form he is shown as aged 6 years, 6 months and in whole time education, living in 5 rooms at 3A Shibdon Road, Blaydon-on-Tyne, Gateshead, Durham (now Tyne & Wear), with his parents and his sister, Marie Gwendoline Fisher (1919-2007). His father described himself as a Church Army Evangelist employed by the Reverend E. V. Simpkinson in the parish of Stella Blaydon.

The 1939 England and Wales Register confirms his date of birth and shows him an engineering filing clerk and as a full time member of the Auxiliary Fire Service, residing at 135 Aylward Street, Stepney, London, with his parents and his sister who was a shorthand typist. His father was described a Church Army Evangelist. 

He continued to serve as a Fireman when the Auxiliary Fire Service was replaced by the National Fire Service on 18 August 1941.

Having received injuries caused by enemy action in Clapham, London, his death was registered as aged 30 years in the 2nd quarter of 1945 in the Wandsworth Registration District, London. Probate records show his address to have been 24 Walton Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and that he died on 26 April 1945 in the South London Hospital for Women and Children, 103 South Side, Clapham Common, London. Administration of his estate was granted on 9 July 1945 to his father who was a Captain in the Church Army and his effects totalled £645-8s-1d. in the , Blackshaw Road, London, SW17 0BY.

His is shown as 'R. FISHER' on the London Fire Brigade Memorial in Highgate Cemetery, Swain's Lane, London, N6. He is also commemorated on the National Firefighters Memorial in Sermon Lane, London, EC4, on the on the , on and on the held in Westminster Abbey.

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