My Family Album
How the First World War affected David Fuller’s relatives
Share some of your favourite photographs and win £75 to spend on photo restoration. Here David Fuller from Tattenhall, Cheshire, introduces us to his tree, and highlights the devastating impact of the First World War
From soldier to teacher
William Whitehead’s last role in the Army was his regiment’s bandmaster. He then became a gym instructor at a boys’ school in Lancaster.
Second marriage
My Market Drayton great grandparents, James and Elizabeth Meakin. She had moved from Staffordshire to be housekeeper for a Methodist minister and there she met James, a widower and lay preacher.
A lost generation
My first cousin, named Percy Vere, is seen here during officer training in 1914 – he is standing second from left. He made it through the conflict, but I always wonder how many of these brave men survived with him.
Family man
with his eldest My great grandfather William Whitehead in 1889. William was children, Constance and Winifred, and Zulu wars. a soldier who fought in the Afghan
Heavy toll
My grandfather, Arthur Fuller (born
1889), is shown here on his mother’s knee. Four of his 10 siblings died in infancy, and two were killed in the
First World War.
Park outing
Whitehead, The six children of William and Eliza in my great grandparents, were photographed Reginald, Lancaster in 1900. My grandfather brothers second from the left, lost his two youngest World War. (seen here in the pram) in the First
Fashionable females
Here are my aunts Edna and Hilda Fuller in the late 1920s. They were born in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and worked in the textile industries.
Love below stairs
My great grandparents, Agnes and William Fuller, met while in service as a cook and a groom. He joined the Durham Light Infantry.
Unbearable grief
In 1922 Eliza lost her husband and daughter on consecutive days, then collapsed and died at their funeral.