caption serviceyears branch commands death_date death_place birth_place allegiance awards battles birth_date rank image article_title name
brigadier-general h. t. fulton 1892 -- 1918 23px zealand military forces british army 23px british indian army 22px new new zealand rifle brigade 29 march 1918 colincamps , france dalhousie , india united kingdom new zealand companion george distinguished service order mentioned in despatches -lrb- 2 -rrb- of '' croix de guerre '' -lrb- france -rrb- the order of st michael and st indian north-west frontier wars 15 august 1869 brigadier-general bg harry fulton.jpg harry fulton
 harry townsend fulton
harry fulton

brigadier-general harry townsend fulton cmg , dso -lrb- 15 august 1869 -- 29 march 1918 -rrb- was a british army officer who served with the new zealand military forces during the second boer war and first world war .
born in 1869 in dalhousie , india , fulton moved with his family to new zealand as a child .
commissioned as an officer in the british army in 1892 , he was seconded to the indian army and served on the northwest frontier .
in new zealand on sick leave when the second boer war began , he volunteered for the new zealand contingents being raised for service in south africa and was wounded during operations in the northern transvaal .
on leave in new zealand when the first world war broke out , fulton again offered his services to the new zealand government in aid of the war effort .
he was part of the samoa expeditionary force and later served on the western front with the new zealand expeditionary force -lrb- nzef -rrb- .
he led the new zealand rifle brigade during the somme offensive and the battle of messines .
he died in 1918 as a result of wounds received when his headquarters was shelled by artillery .
he was the third and last brigadier-general to be killed on active service with the nzef during the war .
