Name
Frank Alexander Fuller
04/01/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/04/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
TF 1676
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st/8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 49 and 51.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial,
Not on the Hertford memorials,
Not on the Hoddesdon memorials
Pre War
We believe this to be the F. Fuller on the Cheshunt War Memorial
Frank Alexander Fuller was born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, (possibly Cheshunt) on the 4th January 1894, son of Alfred Fuller an Agricultural Worker and Belinda Fuller (nee Bowden - daughter of William Bowden) of 11 Laurel Villas, New Road, Bedfont, Middlesex. The sixth of nine children.
He was educated at Iver Heath, Bucks.
1901 Census records Frank aged 7, living with his parents, six brothers and sister Olive (2), at Farley Cottage, 1 Whitley Road, Hoddesdon, Herts.
1911 Census records Frank aged 17, working as an Under Gardener, living with his parents, brothers Harry (15), Victor (13), and sister Olive (11), at Round Coppice Farm, Iver Heath, Bucks. His aunt Isabelle Bowden was living with the family.
On the 13th May 1912, Frank and Brother Thomas enlisted at Uxbridge, Middx, for four years in the 1st/8th Battalion, Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment) Territorial Force, with the service number TF/1676, (Thomas TF/1681). He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
At the Outbreak of war Frank was still a member of the Territorial Force and volunteered for overseas service. The Battalion was mobilized and moved to Gibraltar to replace a unit of the Regular Army, arriving there on the 17th September 1914, remaining there until February 1915, when they returned to England.
March 1915. The Battalion, Frank and brother Thomas moved to France. They embarked at Southampton, Hampshire, aboard the SS “Empress Queen” on the 8th March 1915, for Le Havre, France, arriving the following day the 9th. Just 48 days later Frank and brother Thomas were Killed in Action at Zonnebeke, in the fight for Hill 60 on 26th April 1915. (Capture of Hill 60 17th April 1915 – 7th May 1915).
Both brothers are commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
Additional Information
His effects of £3-14s-11d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £3, went to his father Alfred Fuller.
Five of his brothers are known to have served.
William (Bombardier 55760 RFA) Survived. Thomas (Private 1681 Middlesex Regt) K in A on 26th April 1915. James (Private 77739 RHA) Survived. Harry (Private 1281 Royal Fusiliers) K in A on 7th July 1916. And Victor (Private formerly 10881 Army Cyclist Corps then 20586 Royal Warwickshire Regt) Killed on 14th September 1918.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
