Lieutenant

Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve

Age 21

Son of John and Mary of Montreal, QC

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(From a write-up on Hugh Fulton supplied by Lorraine Lazier.  It is not known the source of this information other than it may have been from a meeting or memorial service.)

Lieutenant Hugh C. Fulton

I met him first when he was a little shaver of seven years.

I knew his father well - son of a Scottish dominie.

The one lesson Grandfather had taught both son and grandson was that a sense of duty is a firm base for a sound character.

Hughie was an only son.  What a pity that so often the line of descent in families that have the fine things to pass on, is snapped, and the world loses!

The manner of Hughie's being Missing-in-Action is typical of the man that was emerging from the shy, fair-haired laddie that he was.  When Hughie was in his first year at college, he lost his father, suddenly.  He decided that he'd "better work for a year or two to save Mother the burden of putting me through college."  He meant to continue.

Hughie had been a Sea Cadet for years.  As soon as he was of age, he gave up his job and answered the call of duty.  That call came from within - not by a poster or a postman.  He was proud and happy in the Navy, and in its record and traditions of the Service.  The ship's confidential books were in his custody.  Hughie knew that possession of these books would help the enemy to destroy his fellow-sailors.  That's why they had to be destroyed in case of his ship "getting it".

Survivors of HMCS "Alberni" tell it this way: "Lieutenant Hugh Fulton, of Montreal, disappeared, after dashing to the ship's wardroom to destroy the ship's confidential records."

I feel cleaner and better for knowing lads like Hughie.

I'd like to measure up to his standard.

Wouldn't you?

Lieutenant Fulton's devotion to duty, which led to final sacrifice of life itself, is characteristic of the noble company of men and women who have given their all in this fight for world freedom.