Medal & Mortality index
The Military Cross was instituted as a Decoration on December 28th, 1914, to
reward Distinguished Services rendered by Officers of certain ranks in the army
in time of war. Bars may be added for additional acts of gallantry. Since August
1st, 1918, it has, like the D.S.O., been awarded for "services in action" only.
London Gazette of 17 July 1917 :
Temp Lt Dunstan Milley Fuller, R Fus:
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When a man of his platoon had
been embedded in the mud for some house he, no tools being available, dug with
his hands for over three hours till the man was freed. The task was carried out
under artillery barrage and continuous sniping,
On August 10th 1917, the 11th Battalion took part in one of those minor
operations which are the aftermath of all great battles ; and it was their fate
to fight over much the same ground as that on which the 4th Battalion had
clashed with the Grenadier Guard Regiment in the first Battle of Ypres. The
Fusiliers, the right assaulting battalion of the 54th Brigade, had their right
flank near the Ypres-Menin road ; and at 4.35 a.m. B Company (Captain Fuller) on
the left, D (Captain Gray) on the right, attacked from this position. They
advanced steadily against little opposition until the machine-gun fire from
Inverness Copse — in the neighbouring brigade area — brought up the right flank
and made it swerve to the left. On the left, however, the men penetrated some
distance into Glen-corse Wood, despite the ten or twelve " pill-boxes " standing
like sentinels on the edge, some 200 yards from the south-west corner of the
wood. Some of D Company also got well forward and, with Captain Gray, reached
Fitz-clarence Farm. Gray was there shot through both knees, but continued to
fire from a shell-hole. Fuller was shot through the head in a gallant attempt to
rush a machine-gun emplacement.
Fuller, Dunstan Milley, M.C., Capt. (Tp.), 11/Battalion, killed in action,
10/8/17.