Six Sons on Service.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 June 1915, Page 3

Six Sons on Service.

■DIKNJiIDIN MOTHER'S RECORU. (Special to "The Evening News.") iDunedin This Day. Private G. duller, who is a member of the Ist Royal Munster Fusiliers, writing from Egypt on April 10th to his parents in Dunedin, says:— "Last week while in Egypt, Peter (a 'brother of the writer) met quite a awniber of chaps that came from Dunedin. They are coming with our little lot, and he says they were a great body of men, and looked fit for anything. 1 saw in a paper the other day where a mother had received a letter from the King, also an allowance from the Government, lor having sis sons in the force. "What about the Fuller contingent?" lAlrs Fuller lias six sons 6erving in the forces in various parts of the Empire, besides a large number of grandchildren. The, eons are. Private William Fuller, 13 years ili the lloyal Field Artillery, out of which he was in India eight years, and two years and four months with Sir Redvers Buller in the South African campaign, for which he holds five medals and 7 bans. Now he is attached to the sth Sussex National Reserve) England. Private John Fuller was 14 years in the Regular Army, and is now in the 6th Sussex National Reserves, England, under arms. Lance-Corporal Gilbert Fuller served 12 years in the 6th Dragoon Guards (four in India, live in South Africa, and three in the English Reserve). He has now rejoined his regiment, and is acting as instructor of i-eeruihs, of whom he sent 1(5,000 forward to front in four months, and at Easter was waiting to go forward himself. Private Wallace ' Fuller solved six years in the R.E. Artillery in Ceylon, and is now at the front with the new siege guns. j Privates Philip and Peter Fuller have , each served 12 years in the Royal Munster Fusiliers (nine years in India), and have now ibeen sent to the front, where they have fallen in with the Dunedin boys. Eesides the above eix boys, Mr Fuller hae in the fighting line several grandsons and nephews, one of whom j has won the V.C. | The Fuller family consists of eight ' boys and'nine girls, "all fit and well," . a« their mother remarked this morn- j ing to a member of the "Evening Star" eta's. > if .