Fulton Walter Marshall CQMS 4443460
Personnel Entry
Name Fulton Walter Marshall
Army number 4443460
Rank Sergeant
Decorations None yet known beyond service medals.
Date of birth Born 21/10/1904, South Shields.
Age 59 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry as a Regular Soldier for 7/5 on 12/11/1924 at South Shields, aged 19. Re-enlisted to complete 21 years on 11/6/1933. Posted to 1st Battalion DLI. Served Shanghai in 1938. Posted to 10th Battalion DLI - possibly 1/9/1939. Details of subsequent postings not yet known, but he remained within the Regiment. Granted A Release 31/7/1947. Z Release 18/10/1947.
Company/Battery Not yet known.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Company Quartermaster Sergeant.
Joined Brigade Not yet known definitively, but possibly 1/9/1939.
Promotions No details yet.
Wounded Not as far as is known.
Prisoner of War Not as far as is known.
Died/Killed in action Died 3/5/1964 at St Luke's Hospital, London, aged 59. Death registered Q2 1964, Paddington.
Home address Worked as a "heater" (possibly shipyard rivet heater). Next of Kin on enlistment - Father - Robert Fulton (1876 - 1949), 76 Heron Street, South Shields. Mother - Jane Deenie (1877 - ?). Married Nora Mallaburn (1911 - 1990) in April 1932 at Richmond, North Yorkshire.
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