Eric Fulton's Story.
Eric Fulton Harvie was born in 1896 the son of John, a stockbroker and Edith Harvie, of Kingsmead, Bidston.
In 1901 Eric was living with his parents and three brothers and two sisters. The family employed a cook, a nurse, five domestic servants, a gardener and a coachman.
Ten years later the family is still living at Kingsmead, Bidston. Eric was educated at Moorland House School, Heswall and Charterhouse. He then entered Christ College, Cambridge. Eric was an all-round athlete; he represented Charterhouse at football and also played for his battalion
He became 2nd Lieutenant in 1915, promoted to Lieutenant in 1917, then Captain in March 1918.
Captain Harvie was wounded on four different occasions, twice in the battles of the Somme in 1916, at Bullecourt in May 1917, and again at Passchendaele in October, 1917. He was awarded Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and leadership for leading a company at Passchendaele in October 1917.
On 1st June 1918 Eric was killed in action at Hinges. He is buried at Sandpits British cemetery, Fouquereuil (grave ii.F.3). He is also remembered on the Bidston War Memoria, Trinity with Palm Grovel and on the family grave at Flaybrick Cemetery, Birkenhead.
The Harvie family grave in Flaybrick Cemetery, Birkenhead.
Memorial inside Trinity with Palm Grove Church
Eric’s younger brother Stuart Harvie was killed earlier the same month. He had two other brothers, Reginald Blair Harvie (15th Hussars), and John Keith Harvie (3rd King’s Own Hussars) who continued to serve and both survived the war.
Research, grave photograph and photograph of the memorial inside Trinity with Palm Grove Church by Chris Booth