James Thomas Woodford Fisk

The son of John and Ethel Fisk he married Vera Grindon in 1941.

He had been a member of Dean Close School Officer Training Corps, and in 1939 was commissioned from the rank of Gunner into the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) on 16 Aug 1939. Possibly he was part of the Territorial Isle of Wight Rifles, who had been converted to Artillery and manned the heavy guns protecting the Island. He was returned to civilian life on the death of his father as he was the only person to take over the family farm.

Many Auxiliers recalled explosives were stored at his home at Mill House under a stream. Fisk was a farmer and also a member of the cattle feed firm Fisk & Fisher. They operated a mill at Brighstone and also had owned New Cross Mill in Newport, which still bears their name, though in 1939 it had been sold to Mew Langton Brewery, having previously served as storage for the Fisk & Fisher. Mew Langton was run by another Auxilier.

Robert Cassell, a member of the 19th (West Wight) Battalion Hampshire Home Guard, recalled that during the war he knew Jim Fisk was doing something secret. He didn't know what nor where their base was.

In Oct 1941, along with several other Auxiliers, he attended the funeral of Lieutenant Bull, Wootton Home Guard Guard Officer, who died during an exercise. 

Auxilier Jim Caws remembered him as quick witted. One day Caws had given two Scottish ATS girls a lift in his car as he went to meet his unit late at night. The girls weren't in a rush to get back to their billet, which happened to be opposite his meeting point, as their curfew was midnight. The Patrol were inspected about 11.30pm by Jim Fisk, who asked if there were were any problems. Sergeant Gladdis told him that Jim Caws had two ATS girls in his car, but Fisk responded as quick as could be, "Well see that he gets them back safe in the morning".

On another occasion he turned up on duty having rushed three pints down in a Newport pub beforehand, the result of the limited opening times, he found himself legless, quite unable to stand. He lay on the ground, his greatcoat getting soaked in the rain. Fisk arrived at this point for an inspection, and was told immediately by Sergeant Gladdis that Caws was drunk. Instead of telling off Caws, he told Gladdis to get him inside immediately. But they couldn't move him and he woke in the early hours to see the moon on a cold frosty night and found his greatcoat frozen solid like a suit of armour.