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Fuller was born in Chichester, West Sussex, England and educated at Malvern College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from 1897 to 1898. He proceeded to become 2nd Lt at Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and to serve in South AfricaSouth Africa is a republic at the southern tip of Africa. It is bordered to the north by Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the north-east by Mozambique and Swaziland. Lesotho is contained entirely inside the borders of South Africa. South Africa is one o from 1899Events January events January 1 End of Spanish rule in Cuba. January 1 Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City. January 3 The first known use of the word " automobile", in an editorial in the New York Times''. January 6 Lord Curzon becomes a vic to 1902Events January-April January 28 The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. France, Loisy's L'evangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis February 11 Police beat up universal suffrage. He then attended Staff College at CamberleyCamberley is a town in Surrey, England about 29 miles to the south-west of London. Camberley can be reached by the A30, the M3 motorway and by train from London Waterloo station. There are small airports nearby at Blackbushe and Farnborough. Immediately s and served as an adjutantIn the military, an adjutant is a regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. In United States Army squadrons, the adjutant is often the officer-in-cha to a territorial battalion. During World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of, he was a staff officer with the Home Forces and in France and from 1916 worked in the Heavy Branch, which was later to become the Tank CorpsThe Royal Tank Regiment is a unit of the British Army (formerly the Tank Corps and Royal Tank Corps . It is a regiment of the Royal Armoured Corps and is made up of two units, the First Royal Tank Regiment (1RTR) and the Second Royal Tank Regiment (2RTR).. He planned the tank attack of CambraiCambrai is a French city, in the Nord departement of which it is a sous-prefecture''. The Battle of Cambrai ( November 20 December 3, 1917), a campaign of World War I took place there. It was noted for the first successful use of tanks. Cambrai was the bi and the tank operations for the autumn offensives of 1918. His Plan 1919 for a fully mechanized army was not put into action. After 1918, he held various leading positions, notably as a commander of an experimental brigade at Aldershot.
In the 1920s, he collaborated with his junior B.H. Liddell Hart in developing new ideas for the mechanization of armies.
Upon his retirement in 1933, impatient with what he considered the inability of democracy to adopt military reforms, he became involved with Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Fascist movement. As a member of the British Union of Fascists he sat on the party's Policy Directorate and was considered one of Mosley's closest allies. His ideas on warfare continued to be influential in World War II, as much with the Germans, notably Heinz Guderian, as with his own country.
He also was a long-term acquaintance of Aleister Crowley and was familiar with his, and other forms of, magick and mysticism.
In addition to his military accomplishments, Fuller was a vigorous, expressive and opinionated writer of military history and of controversial predictions of the future of war.