Algernon Fuller
{{Short description|British military office and electrical engineer}}
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|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom
|serviceyears= 1904 – 1941
|servicenumber= 3072
|rank= Major-General
|branch= 23px British Army
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|unit= Royal Engineers
|battles= First World War, Second World War
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Major-General Algernon Clement Fuller CBE (30 March 1885{{spaced ndash}}6 August 1970) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War, and inventor of the Fullerphone.[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U51911/FULLER_Major-General_Algernon_Clement?index=1&results=QuicksearchResults&query=0 FULLER, Major-General Algernon Clement : Who's Who]
Biography
Born on 30 March 1885, Algernon Fuller was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He received his first commission in the Royal Engineers in 1904. He served during the First World War and, in 1916, he invented the Fullerphone, which enabled telephony and telegraphy to be used simultaneously on the same line, rendering the telegraphy secret.[http://www.wftw.nl/ful.html Wireless for the Warrior – Fullerphone main page] It was used widely during the First World War and thereafter, and Fuller was appointed as Experimental Officer at the Signals Experimental Establishment, Woolwich, between 1916 and 1920. He was Deputy Director of Mechanisation at the War Office, between 1938 and 1940, Director of Engineer and Signals Equipments at the Ministry of Supply, between 1940 and 1941, and Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Supply, in 1941.Christopher Sterling, Military Communications: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century, {{ISBN|1-8510973-2-5}}, p. 176
Major General Algernon Fuller became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1941.{{Cite web |title=SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 1 JANUARY, 1941 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35029/supplement/9/data.pdf |access-date=2022-10-03}} He retired from the British Army in 1941 and died on 6 August 1970.
References
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External links
- [https://generals.dk/general/Fuller/Algernon_Clement/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]
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Category:War Office personnel in World War II
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Category:Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
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Category:British Army generals of World War II