Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
ff
Updates for Lance Corporal John Marshall Fulton
Date Information
12/03/2021 Lance Corporal John M Fulton is also commemorated on the Belfast and County Down Railway Great War Memorial in Belfast Central Station.
12/03/2021 The 1911 census lists John as age 20, living with the family at house 147 in Hyndford Street, Pottinger, Belfast. John was a railway porter. His father was a labourer in the shipyard.
12/03/2021 His father remarried. Joseph Fulton and Sarah Boyd were married on 11th January 1903 in Belfast.
12/03/2021 Private John Fulton arrived in France with the Royal Irish Rifles on 5th October 1915.
12/03/2021
12/03/2021
28/05/2020 02428
18/12/2018 Lance Corporal John Fulton is commemorated locally on Moy War Memorial as J Fullerton.
18/12/2018 John Fulton was born in the Benburb area (which borders on Moy) on 26th July 1891. He was one of at least three children.
18/12/2018 Known family: Joseph Fulton, Eleanor Fulton, Annie Fulton (born 15th September 1889), John Marshall Fulton (born 26th July 1891), James F H Fulton (born 26th September 1895).
18/12/2018 John’s mother, Eleanor Fulton, died on 24th March 1899 in the Dungannon area. She was 40 years old. John was 7 years old.
18/12/2018 The family moved to Belfast.
18/12/2018 The 1901 census lists John M as age 9, living with the family at house 5 in Ballycarry Street, Clifton, Belfast. His father was a widower and a shipyard helper.
18/12/2018 John Fulton enlisted in Belfast.
18/12/2018 John Marshall Fulton was the eldest son of Joseph and Eleanor Fulton Joseph Fulton and Eleanor Hazleton were married on 11th April 1888 in the district of Dungannon.
18/12/2018 Lance Corporal J M Fulton is buried in Mill Road Cemetery at Thiepval.
18/12/2018 Lance Corporal John Fulton was serving with the 14th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916.
Read more