CHARLES VALENTINE FULLER
From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG”: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730
As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570
Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.
Image courtesy of Pam.
Born: 1888, St. Clement’s, Ipswich.
Died: 12th February 1916; age 28; died from Pneumonia and Cellulitis – connective tissue of the neck at the Cliff Military Hospital, Felixstowe, Suffolk.
Residence: 22, Dorkin Street, Ipswich.
Occupation: with the Great Eastern Railway for 2 & 1/2 years – as a Porter at Ipswich – Goods.
First Enlistment: Location: Bramford; Date: 5th November 1906; Age: 17 years & 10 months; Occupation: Striker; Religion: CofE; Address: 8, Little Baker Street, Ipswich. Next of Kin: father – Charles Fuller. Height: 5ft 4ins, fresh complexion, grey eyes & brown hair. Various tattoos on both forearms. Signed up for 6 years’ service in the 3rd Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment.
Discharged on termination of his engagement – 4th November 1912 – served 4 years & 151 days. Home address: 29, Waterworks Street, Ipswich.
Second enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Date of Entry Therein: 10th October 1914.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 3/9220
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 3rd Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War & 1914 Star + Clasp.
Grave Reference:
BA.I.22.
Ipswich.
Brother of JOHN FULLER and paternal uncle to LESLIE ERNEST FULLER
CENSUS
1891 31, Woodhouse Street, Ipswich.
Charles was 3 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Charles Fuller, 27, a Bargeman, born Ipswich.
Emily Fuller (nee Day), born Ipswich.
Ethel Emily Fuller, 6, born Ipswich.
Ernest George Fuller, 17 months, born Ipswich.
1901 8, Little Baker Street, Ipswich.
Charles was 14 years old, an Errand Boy. He was living with his parents & siblings.
Charles, 37, a Quay Labourer.
Emily, 34.
Ethel, 16, a tea Packer – Grocer.
Ernest, 11.
Stanley David Fuller, 6, born Ipswich.
John Fuller, 4, born Ipswich.
1 boarder.
1911 29, Waterworks Street, Ipswich.
Charles was 23 years old, not in work. He was living with his parents & siblings.
Charles, 48, a Dock Labourer.
Emily, 44.
John, 14, an Errand Boy.
Ada Gertrude Fuller, 7, born Ipswich.
Eva Violet Fuller, 3, born Ipswich.
4 boarders. One of the boarders was 22 year old Rose Lyas.
In 1912, in Ipswich, Charles married Rose Annie Lyas, born July 1888, Ipswich – daughter of the late Robert Lyas, a bricklayer, and Annie Moore (nee Burrows (1st marriage Lyas)), and stepdaughter of William Henry Moore, a G.P.O. linesman, of 465, Bramford Road, Ipswich.
Rose and Charles had three daughters:
Emily May Fuller, born May 1912, Ipswich.
Ethel Ada Fuller, born July 1913, Ipswich.
Alice Maud Fuller, born July 1916, Ipswich.
On the 23rd September 1921, Emily, Ethel and Alice were baptised at St. Mary Stoke Church – family home at 47 Allenby Road, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Rose Annie Fuller – widow.
Charles is also remembered on St. Clement’s Church WW1 War Memorial, and on the Great Eastern Railway war memorial, Liverpool Street Station, London.
SERVING WITH THE FORCES.
The above photograph shows Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fuller, of 29, Waterworks Street, and their four sons who all went to France in 1914. Their names and regiments are (1) Prvt. John Fuller, Suffolk Regiment, now in France, was employed at Messrs. Limmer and Pipe’s about two years previous to the war. (2) Corpl. Ernest George Fuller, Machine-gun Corps, went to France in 1914, was wounded on July 4th, 1916, now convalescent at Grantham. (3) Prvt. Stanley Fuller, Lincolnshire Regiment, went to France in 1914, and is still out there. (4) Prvt. Charles V. Fuller, went to France at the outbreak of war in the Suffolks, was wounded in 1915, and died at Cliff Hospital, Felixstowe, on February 12th, 1916.
GER Toll for the Brave.
Extra information courtesy of Keith Barker – Great Eastern Railway Society www.gersociety.org.uk
E.A.D.T. – Saturday, 19th February 1916 – IPSWICH SOLDIER’S FUNERAL – The funeral took place at the Ipswich Cemetery on Friday afternoon, of Private Charles Valentine Fuller, of the 3rd Suffolks, who died of pneumonia at Felixstowe on the 12th February. The deceased, who leaves a widow and two children, was the son of Charles Fuller, of 29, Waterworks Street, and was 28 years of age. He went out to the Front at the beginning of the war, and a few months afterwards came home wounded. Though apparently recovered from his wounds, the latter probably made him less able to resist the disease that finally laid him low. Three of his brothers are serving in the forces, two being at the Front and the other at Felixstowe. The soldier’s remains were borne to the Cemetery by a detachment of his late comrades-in-arms; the funeral service was conducted by the Reverend J. Powell, of St. Clement’s, while the military obsequies at the grave were carried out by a party sent by the London P.O. Rifles.
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