Edward saw service in France in 1940 before promotion to the rank of Major within a Young Soldiers battalion. Hankering for a more active role he volunteered for overseas service and reverted to the rank of Captain with his old Regiment, the Royal Norfolks.

The 2nd Battalion served in the Far East in the Burma Campaign participating in attacking the Japanese positions along Kohima Ridge from Thursday 4^th May onwards; the day on which he was to be killed at the age of 23.

The War Cemetery in Kohima of 1,420 Allied war dead lies on the slopes of Garrison Hill, in what was once the Deputy Commissioner's tennis court. The epitaph carved on the memorial in the cemetery has become world-famous as the Kohima Epitaph, spoken at every remembrance event honouring all British & Commonwealth forces who perished.
 

“When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today”
 

Only son of Major Charles Frederick Vernon Fulton, MC, (killed in action in India, 1^st December 1943), & Nora Minnette Fulton of Durban, Natal, South Africa.

A copy of this story is available for download here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’ :-
Captain Charles Edward Michael Craig FULTON