Cuthbert Graham Fuller (1874-??) DSO, CMG was a decorated Royal Engineers officer. He was educated at Beaumont College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Engineers in 1893, and served in South Africa, 1899–1902, being mentioned in dispatches. By 1914, he was a Major, and served in Gallipoli, Egypt, and France during the First World War, earning the brevets of Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel. He commanded 130 Brigade, 1923–1925 and Canal Brigade, Egypt, 1925 1928, and was Major-General in charge of administration, Eastern Command, 1929 - 1931. In addition to his British awards, he was a Commander of the Legion of Honor. He married (1912) Princess Sophia, daughter of Prince Vladimir Shahoffsky.
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“Flower Belle! What a euphonious appellation! Easy on the ears and a banquet for the eyes!”
—Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields)
“Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate.... Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.”
—Thomas Fuller (1608–1661)