Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel B. M. Fuller, Army Ordnance Department, late Dorsetshire Regiment and Oxfordshire Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (7968 Pte., 40th Coy. 10th Impl. Yeo.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., Dorset Rgt.); 1914 Star (Capt., A.O.D.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.) slight contact marks, very fine and better (5) £300-360

M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1918 & 14 June 1918.

Brian Maitland Fuller was born in Belfast. A Clerk by occupation, he attested for short service with the Imperial Yeomanry at Oxford, aged 23 years, having previously served in the 7th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Regiment. With the Oxfordshire Yeomanry he served in South Africa from 3 February, receiving a commission on 25 October 1900. He served as a Railway Staff Officer, 23 October 1900-23 July 1901. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Dorset Regiment in June 1901, he was advanced to Lieutenant in January 1904 and Captain in May 1909. Fuller transferred to the Army Ordnance Department in December 1909. In the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 20 September 1914; served in Egypt and with the E.E.F., 31 January 1916-24 May 1918, and then returned to France again, 4 July-11 November 1918. He was advanced to Temporary Major in April 1915; Major in September 1915; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel during October 1917-November 1919 and July 1920-May 1922, being promoted to that rank in October 1928. Lieutenant-Colonel Fuller retired from the Army on 26 August 1931.

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