Harry Townsend Fulton (15 August 1869-29 March 1918) was a British Army brigadier-general who was killed in action during World War I.
Biography[]
Harry Fulton was born in Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh, British India in 1869, and he was raised in New Zealand. He joined the British Army's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1892 before serving in the West Yorkshire Regiment, the 26th Madras Native Infantry, the 39th Bengal Infantry, the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) during the 1897 and 1898 campaigns on India's North West FRontier, and with the 4th New Zealand Contingent during the Second Boer War. By World War I, Fulton was a major, and he took command of an infantry battalion sent to occupy German Samoa before fighting against the Senussi rebels in North Africa in 1915. Braithwaite was promoted to command a brigade on the Western Front, commanding the New Zealand Rifle Brigkade at the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Messines, the Battle of Passchendaele, and the Spring Offensive. Fulton was mortally wounded by a German artillery barrage at Colincamps.