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<em>Leigh Austin Fuller, Jr</em>., was born October 12, 1906, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, son of the late Col. Leigh Austin Fuller, U.S. Army Medical Department.</p>
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He attended Staunton Military Academy, Va., and as Honor Graduate he won appointment to the U.S.M.A., admitted July 1, 1924, graduated June 9, 1928, and promoted in the Army to Second Lieutenant of Infantry. Lt. Fuller’s first Post was Ft. Ontario, N.Y. where he served September 10, 1928, to September 16, 1931; at Ft. Benning, Ga., as student officer to June 1, 1932; at Schofield Bks., T.H. Co. Com’dr. 35th Inf. (1st Lt. Inf. September 1, 1934) to March 23, 1935; at Ft. Washington, D.C. to May 3, 1939. (Capt. Inf. June 9, 1938). Here he was Communications and Sig. Off. Co. Comd’r and took course at Edgewood Arsenal, C.W. School, Arlington Cantonment, Va. Co. Comd’r. 12th Inf. to March 30, 1940. May 20, 1940, at Manila, P. I. 34th Inf. Promoted to Major soon after Japanese attack on P.I. He took part in defense of Bataan Peninsula. In February, 1941, telegram from War Dept, reported him “seriously wounded”. In March telegram reported him “restored to duty.” After surrender of Bataan no word received for 9 months when reported by War Dept, as “prisoner of Japanese.” On July 3, telegram of War Department reported Major Leigh A. Fuller died as Japanese Prisoner on June 29, 1943.</p>
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On December 26. 1933, Capt. Fuller married Margaret Hunter Ely, daughter of Major Gen. and Mrs. Hanson E. Ely. Mrs. Fuller was well-known throughout the Army. She was the sister of Comd’r. Hanson E. Ely, Jr., graduate of U.S. Naval Academy, 1917; of now Col. Louis B. Ely, Class 1919, U.S.M.A.; of Col. Eugene B. Ely, Class 1924, U.S.M.A. and 1st Lt. John A. Ely, Class 1942, U.S.M.A. Mrs. Fuller died at Walter Reed Hospital, October 1, 1937 leaving two sons, Leigh A. Fuller, III, and Dwight Hunter Fuller, now living at Annapolis, Md. Maj. Fuller married Alice Ball of Annapolis, Md. and they had a son, Philip Ball Fuller, now three years of age living with his mother at Annapolis, Md.</p>
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Major Fuller’s only brother, George, a graduate of Annapolis about 1934, was killed by the Japanese on an Airplane Carrier sunk near Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, about 1941.</p>
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Major Fuller was an exemplary officer. His outstanding characteristics were loyalty, an extremely high sense of duty, unselfishness, dependability, devotion to his family and friends, relied upon by his superiors, and respected and loved by his subordinates. Duty was his religion: he kept the faith of his Alma Mater, “Duty, Honor, Country”.</p>
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<em>—H. E. E.</em></p>
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