Name
HENRY WALTER FULLER
6/12/1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/10/1916
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
126826
Royal Field Artillery
15th Bde. H.Q.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN
B. 13. 36.
France
Headstone Inscription
"UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY"
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon Congregational Church Memorial, now in Broxbourne United Reformed Church, Broxbourne
Pre War
We believe this to be the H. W. Fuller on the Hoddesdon Congregational Church Memorial.
Henry Walter Fuller was born on 6th December 1888, in Lee, Kent, son of Walter Fuller, a Congregational Minister and Elizabeth Esther Fuller (nee Webb). Their only child, Elizabeth died on 12th December 1888.
1891 Census records Henry aged 2, as a Visitor, Visiting Catherine and Annie Buson at Court Yard, Eltham, London & Kent.
His father remarried in July 1895, to Annie Whiting, the marriage was registered in Risbridge, Suffolk, they went on to have three children, Winifred born in 1898, Reginald Born in 1899 and John born in 1901.
1901 Census, Henry aged 12, is living with Father, stepmother Annie, two half-brothers and half-sister Winfred at, 2 The Limes, Great Stambridge, Essex.
1911 Census, Henry (22), is employed as a Bank Clerk, living with his Father, stepmother Annie, two half-brothers and half-sister Winfred at, The Mance, Roydon, Essex.
Wartime Service
Henry enlisted at London, posted to the Royal Field Artillery and issued with the service No. 126826.
On completion of his training Henry was sent to France seeing action on the Western Front.
Henry died on 18th October 1916 aged 27, at the 25th Stationary Hospital, Rouen, France, of Pneumonia. He is buried in St Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France. Grave Ref: B. 13. 36.
At the time of his death, he was serving with 15th Brigade, H. Q. Royal Field Artillery.
Additional Information
His effects of £4-04s-00d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £8-10s-00d, went to his father Walter.
A Pension Card exists for his father Walter as a Dependent, but no Pension amount is recorded.
His Headstone inscription “UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY” was requested by Mr. W. Fuller, The Mance, 35 Tonbridge Road, Maidstone, Kent.
The 25th Stationary Hospital was at Rouen, France, from March 1915 to May 1919.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
