Cuthbert Fuller


Cuthbert Graham Fuller was a Royal Engineers officer.

Military career

Fuller was born in to Belfast, Ireland to George Fuller and Antoinette Cumming. He was educated at Beaumont College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 25 July 1893, and promoted to Lieutenant on 25 July 1896. He served in South Africa during the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902, and was mentioned in dispatches. On 1 January 1902 he appointed a Deputy Assistant Director of Railways stationed in Transvaal. By 1914, he was a major, and serving in Gallipoli, Egypt, and France during the First World War, earning the brevets of Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel. He became commander of the 130th Infantry Brigade in 1923, commander of the Canal Brigade in Egypt in 1925 and Major-General in charge of administration at Eastern Command in 1929. He became General Officer Commanding, 48th Division, T.A. in June 1931 before retiring in June 1935.

Personal life

In 1912, he married Princess Sophia Vladimirovna, daughter of Prince Vladimir Shahoffsky.