Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration (2), G.V.R. (Surgn. Major C. A. Fuller, U.P. Horse), with top slip bar; another (Surgn. Maj. C. A. Fuller, 1st (Southern) Regt. U P Horse) with top brooch bar, good very fine (2) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Charles Arthur Fuller received medical training at St. Mary’s, London and became a M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P., London in 1892, and M.B., London, in 1893. Moving to India, he went into practise at Cawnpore and joined the Volunteers, being appointed a Surgeon-Lieutenant of the 5th Administrative Battalion, Bengal Volunteer Corps on 1 January 1894. This unit, then based at Cawnpore, consisted of the Cawnpore Light Horse and Cawnpore Volunteer Rifle Corps. Serving with this unit for some 25 years, he was promoted to Surgeon-Captain on 5 February 1897. The Cawnpore Light Horse was amalgamated and re-titled the United Provinces Light Horse in 1904.

Fuller continued as Medical Officer to the Cawnpore Squadron of the unit, and a year later was again appointed Medical Officer of the Cawnpore Volunteer Rifles. In another reorganisation in 1909, the United Provinces Light Horse became the United Provinces Horse; Fuller served in the Southern Regiment of that unit. On 1 September 1909 he was promoted Surgeon-Major, still serving in both the Cawnpore Volunteer Rifles and the United Provinces Horse (Southern Regiment). He was awarded the Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, this notified in the Gazette of India of 9 August 1913. He attained the rank of Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 January 1914. Serving in the Volunteers throughout the Great War, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Defence Force Medical Corps following the reorganisation of April 1917. He was then posted to the 7th (Southern) United Provinces Horse. Moving back to England in about 1923, Dr Fuller lived at Hanover Gate, London, W.1 until his death on 31 August 1949. Sold with copied research.