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250191 Able.Sea. Andrew Fulton Royal Navy from:Banbridge, Co Down, NI Andrew Fulton, an Irishman, born 16th October 1899 served in the Royal Navy in both World Wars. He was born in Doagh, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland. Father of seven children. Some of his descendants live in New Zealand where he and his wife Jeanie lived in their latter years. He was awarded a medal by the Russian Government in the 1980s for his help at the evacuation of women and children in Murmansk (this is not on his WW2 war records). He died in Christchurch, New Zealand at the age of 94 in November 2003 and is buried in Christchurch. Add to this record.    Additional Information: This is my grandfather. He died in 1992 (not 1994). I've never heard of this Russian medal and I would like it verified. He didn't mention it to me and I visited him virtually every weekend in the early to mid-1980s. He certainly served on the Murmansk run which he told me about. His ship was bombed and he ended up in the water and then in Archangel for a few months to deal with his broken leg due to the bombing. This is his information to me. He also served in the Merchant Navy. He was a gunner in the navy. My grandmother's name was Jeannie. He was an Able Seaman and a Gunner. Katy Body Reply Related Content: Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did your relative live through the Great War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? If so please let us know. Do you know the location of a Great War "Roll of Honour?" We are very keen to track down these often forgotten documents and obtain photographs and transcriptions of the names recorded so that they will be available for all to remember. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Great War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages. The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running. Hosted by: The Wartime Memories Project Website is archived for preservation by the British Library Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV - All Rights Reserved - We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.