Wilfrid Dolby Fuller V.C.

Born East Kirby, Greasley, Nottinghamshire, 28 July 1893.
Served in the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards.

In 1912 Wilfrid Fuller was a pony driver at the Mansfield Colliery, where his father was employed. A keen footballer, a teetotaller, and a non-smoker, he was a member of the Warsop Vale Church Choir and the Mansfield St Lawrence Bible Class. He served as a bugler in the Mansfield Cadet Corps, Greasley before joining the Grenadier Guards.

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Victoria Cross citation
Printed in the London Gazette on 19 April 1915

“On the 1st March, 1915, at Neuve Chapelle,France, Lance Corporal Fuller saw a party of the enemy trying to escape along a communication trench. He ran towards them, and  killed the leading man with a grenade, the remainder (approximately 50men) seeing no means of evading his grenades, all surrendered to him. Lance Corporal Fuller was quite alone at the time.”

He received his Victoria Cross from King George V at Buckingham Palace on 4 June, 1915. In September of the same year, at the express wish of the Tsar of Russia, he was also decorated by the King at Sheffield with the Russian Cross of the Order of St George, 3rd Class.

He died on 22 November, 1947 at his home in Frome, Somerset.