Sir Cyril Fuller | |
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Born | Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England | 22 May 1874
Died | 1 February 1942 Long Buckby, Daventry, Northamptonshire, England | (aged 67)
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1887–1935 |
Rank | Admiral |
Commands held | Second Sea Lord (1930–32) America and West Indies Station (1928–30) Battlecruiser Squadron (1925–27) HMS Repulse (1916–17) HMS Astraea (1915–16) HMS Challenger (1914–15) HMS Cumberland (1914) HMS Alacrity (1908–10) |
Battles/wars | First World War Second World War |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in Despatches |
Admiral Sir Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, KCB, CMG, DSO (22 May 1874 – 1 February 1942) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel from 1930 to 1932.
Fuller was born in the Isle of Wight on 22 May 1874,[1] the son of Captain Thomas Fuller of the British Army. He joined the Britannia Royal Naval College as a cadet in 1887.[2]
In 1902 Fuller married Edith Margaret Connell.[4]