Lance Sergeant John T (Ben) Fuller
8th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
03/05/1917
1914-15 Star
Husband of Hannah Fuller (nee Lovell) of Islington
Killed in action, aged 37 years
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Wednesday 16 May 1917
Roll of Honour. Another prominent athlete
who served with the East Surreys, Corporal John (Ben)
Fuller, has been killed in action. Mrs Fuller, who resides
at 4 Sand Street, having last evening received a letter
from the same officer who wrote to Mrs Newson. This
letter states that her husband had been killed in action
on 3 May. In conveying the sad news the officer speaks
in the highest terms of the deceased's devotion to duty
and his bravery in action "he was one of the best
in the Company and quite fearless". The deceased
soldier was 37 and on leaving the Army worked at the
Yacht Hotel and for Mr Perchard the coal merchant, and
was well known as a prominent boxer. The deceased, who
had been in France some 2 years, as stated above leaves
a widow to whom we tender our sincere condolences.
