Next of kin plaque: Lieutenant Frank Reinhardt Fischer, 6th Battalion, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'FRANK REINHARDT FISCHER'.

Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1888, Frank Reinhardt Fischer moved with his family to Melbourne, Victoria in 1889. His mother died when he was ten, and his father three years later.

He was employed as an accountant when he joined the AIF on 13 December 1915. He was immediately appointed a sergeant and posted to the Recruit Depot at Royal Park in Melbourne, and later to the depot at Ballarat. Fischer was temporarily appointed a second lieutenant in April 1917, before being sent to the Military College at Duntroon in Canberra where he completed the No. 2 short officer's course at the end of June. He re-enlisted in the AIF on 25 July and was posted a second lieutenant to the 25th Reinforcements for the 6th Battalion. He embarked from Melbourne on 4 August aboard HMAT A32 Themistocles and arrived in Glasgow at the beginning of October.

After further officer training at Tidworth in England, Fischer joined his D Company of his battalion at the end of December. He was promoted lieutenant a week later. Fischer was killed instantly near Lihons on 10 August 1918, when an enemy machine gun bullet hit him in the forehead. He was initially buried at Bayonvillers, but was re-interred in the Heath Cemetery near Harbonnieres in 1920.

This commemorative plaque was sent to Fischer's eldest brother, Hugo, who lived in Melbourne, in February 1923. Another brother, Lance Sergeant Harold Asmus Fischer, died of wounds on Gallipoli in August 1915, while serving with New Zealand's Otago Battalion.

The Fischers were a musical family. A sister, Elsie, was a well-known opera singer in Britain, Australia and the United States, using the stage name Elsa Stralia. Hugo Fischer noted that Frank had a fine baritone voice and was active in arranging entertainment for the men in his battalion. He was also a keen amateur athlete. After his death a quantity of sheet music was among the effects sent home to his family. In the will he drew up before leaving Australia he made a special bequest of his piano