George Henry Fuller

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

109347

Unit at enlistment:

4th Canadian Mounted Rifles

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Prisoner of war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

First Baptist Church

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

220 West Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

220 West Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Polisher

Employer:

Buck Stove Co.

Religious denominations:

Baptist

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

BX June 30, 1916

Mrs. Harvey Yake, 220 West Street, this morning received a telegram from Ottawa to the effect that her brother, Trooper George Henry Fuller, of the 4th C.M.R., had been missing since June 15. Trooper Fuller enlisted here with the 25th Brant Dragoons and left early in the war with Lt. Harry Cockshutt’s squadron of the 4th C.M.R. Previous to enlistment he was employed as a polisher at the Buck Stove Works. He is a married man and his wife resides at 20 Dundurn Street, Hamilton.

BX July 18, 1916

Pte. George Henry Fuller German Prisoner – Trooper of 4th C.M.R. Was Captured in German Rush, June 2 – Was Badly Hurt

Word has been received by Mrs. H.B. Yake, that her brother Trooper George H. Fuller, of the 4th C.M.R., who was reported missing on June 2, when the Canadian trenches were overwhelmed, is a prisoner of war in a German hospital, his leg having been badly injured.

He resided at 220 West Street here and was a polisher at Buck’s before enlisting. Mrs. Yake’s other brother, William Fuller, who was recently sent to the hospital with shell shock, has recovered and has returned to the trenches.

BX January 29, 1917

Is Now Interned in Switzerland – Lance Corporal George Henry Fuller Tells of Ill-Treatment in Germany

Exchanged from a German prison camp in a recent batch of prisoners Lance-Corp. George Fuller, brother of Mrs. H.B. Yake, West Street, is now in Switzerland. Mrs. Yake has just had a letter from her bother giving this information. The exchanges are just of the badly wounded and sick men. Corp. Fuller expresses his pleasure at getting out of Germany, which he describes as a dreadful place to be in, especially for a Britisher. They were called English swine and fed and used as such.

As to the food he states he does not think they could have given them much better, as food was very scarce. Soup was made of cabbage water and boiled horse carrots. Bread was made of sawdust and potatoes and the men could not have got along at all had it not been for the parcels.

He describes Hotel Eiger, Murren, where he is now, as fine – right up in the mountains. They are living there as guests, being given a complete outfit of clothes when they arrived there. Lance-Corp. Fuller was with the 4th C.M.R. and was wounded last June.

BX September 19, 1917

Private G.H. Fuller is Repatriated

Lance Corporal George Henry Fuller is officially reported today as previously a prisoner of war and now repatriated.

BX April 12, 1937

George Henry Fuller

George Henry Fuller, fifty-six years of age, passed away early this morning at his home on West Street, in Brantford Township. Mr. Fuller was born in Brantford, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Fuller. He was a Great War Veteran, and lived in Brantford all his life except his years overseas and eight years spent in Hamilton after the war. He went overseas in 1914 as a member of the Fourth C.M.R. originals and saw much active service. For a time he was a prisoner of war. Mr. Fuller was a member of Dundurn Lodge, A.F. and A.M., Hamilton, and of Hindoo Koosh Grott, Hamilton. The body is resting at his home, West Street, where the funeral service will be conducted Sunday afternoon under Masonic auspices. Interment will be in the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX April 12, 1937

George Henry Fuller

Many friends from Masonic and military circles were in attendance at the funeral George H. Fuller, which was conducted from his residence, West Street, Sunday afternoon. Rev. Wayman K. Roberts of First Baptist Church was the officiating Minister and Mrs. H.E. Brittenden sang most appropriately the solo “No Night There,” G.E.F. Sweet was the accompanist. Masonic rites were exemplified at the home, and at the graveside in the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery, by officers of his home lodge, Dundurn Lodge, Hamilton, assisted by local Masons. Those in charge were Worshipful Master R. Phinn, Hamilton, and R. Wor. Bros. G.H. Ryerson and H.S. Tapscott, and W. Bros. L. Gilmour, all of Brantford, and George Milne, Hamilton. The pallbearers were J.R. Thomson and G. Bennett, representing the local branch of the Canadian Legion and Bros. Harry Bond, and S. Stanley Johnston, Brantford and George Cousins and Frank Parsons, Dundurn Lodge, Hamilton. “Last Post,” was sounded at the graveside by Bugler J. Frost.