Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 93 FULTON, Parker Alonzo WWI Parker was born in 1892 in Upper Stewiacke, son of S. A. (Bob) and Emma (Harrison) Fulton, who operated the Strathlorne Hotel. He joined the 76th Regiment of the Active Militia be fore signing up with the 106th Battalion in 1916 and being sent overseas. He was fighting with the 26th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment) when he was killed in action on Hill 70 on August 17, 1917. Parker is buried in Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France. Submitted by the Stewiacke Valley Historical Society. FULTON, Parker Leslie WWII Parker was born in Cross Roads in 1919, son of David (Pat) and Georgina (Dickie) Fulton, and enlisted in the Canadian Army and trained in New Glasgow and Petawawa, ON. He married Jewel Scott of Elderbank, Musquodoboit, and lived in Cross Roads near his home place. He owned and operated his own gravel truck as well as farming and some lumbering. He passed away in 2000. Submitted by the Stewiacke Valley Historical Society. FULTON, William Stanley WWI William, son of Lyman and Sarah Jane (Johnson) Fulton of Newton Mills, was born in 1891. He moved to California as a young man and served in the American Army in WWI. He married Lavinia May Hanna and lived in Ripon, California. He passed away in 1967. Submitted by the Stewiacke Valley Historical Society. FULTON, Reta May WWII Reta was born in Upper Stewiacke in 1913, daughter of David and Jessie (Bryant) Fulton, and served overseas nearly five years as a Nursing Sister attached to No. 1 General Hospital. She was in England over three years, and Italy for seventeen months when she became seriously ill with meningitis. She came home on furlough in May 1945 then went to a military hospital in Montreal where she remained until the end of the war. After she recovered, she worked in a hospital in Edmonton, then went to Didsbury, AB, where she met and married Kenneth McCoy and settled in Didsbury. Reta passed away in 1998. Submitted by the Stewiacke Valley Historical Society.
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