Admiral Sir Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, (22 May 1874 – 1 February 1942) was a

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officer who served as

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from 1930 to 1932.

Early life

Fuller was born in the

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on 22 May 1874, the son of Captain Thomas Fuller of the

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. He joined the Britannia Royal Naval College as a cadet in 1887.

Naval career

Fuller served in the

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as Senior Naval Officer for the Togoland and Cameroons expedition forces in 1914 and then successively commanded the cruisers , and . He commanded the battlecruiser from 1916 and then became Director of Naval Plans at the Admiralty in 1917. He was Head of the British Naval Section at the Peace Conference in

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in 1919. After the war, Fuller became Chief of Staff for the Atlantic Fleet in 1920 and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff in 1922. He was made Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy in 1923 and given command of the Battlecruiser Squadron in 1925. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the America and West Indies Station in 1928 and

in 1930. He retired in 1935. During the

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, Fuller was Zone commander for the North Riding of Yorkshire

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.Biography of Admiral Sir Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller
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Family

In 1902 Fuller married Edith Margaret Connell.

References

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