Editing J. F. C. Fuller (section)

==Career==
Fuller was commissioned into the 1st Battalion of the [[Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry|Oxfordshire Light Infantry]] (the old [[43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot|43rd Foot]]) on 3 August 1898. He served in the [[Second Boer War]] in [[South Africa]] from December 1899 to 1902,<ref name=":0" /> and was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] on 24 February 1900 a couple of months after arriving there.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27179 |page=2198 |date=3 April 1900}}</ref> In the spring of 1904 Fuller was sent with his unit to India, where he contracted [[typhoid fever]] in autumn of 1905; he returned to England the next year on sick-leave, where he met the woman he married in December 1906.<ref name="Memoirs"/> Instead of returning to India, he was reassigned to [[Volunteer Force|Volunteer]] units in England, serving as [[adjutant]] to the 2nd South Middlesex Volunteers (amalgamated into the [[Kensington Regiment (Princess Louise's)|Kensingtons]] during the [[Haldane Reforms]]) and helping to form the new [[10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment|10th Middlesex]]. Fuller later claimed that his position with the 10th Middlesex inspired him to study soldiering seriously.<ref>Ian F.W. Beckett, ''Riflemen Form: A Study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859–1908'', Aldershot: Ogilby Trusts, 1982, {{ISBN|0-85936-271-X}}, p. 202.</ref><ref>Fuller, ''Memoirs of an Unconventional Soldier'', pp. 10-21.</ref> In 1913, he was accepted into the [[Staff College, Camberley]], starting work there in January 1914.<ref>A. J. Trythall,  ''"Boney" Fuller: The Intellectual General'' (1977)</ref>

During the [[World War I|First World War]], Fuller was a staff officer with the Home Forces and with [[VII Corps (United Kingdom)|VII Corps]] in France, and from 1916 in the Headquarters of the [[Machine-Gun Corps]]' Heavy Branch which was later to become the [[Royal Tank Regiment|Tank Corps]].<ref name=":0" /> He helped plan the tank attack at the 20 November 1917 [[Battle of Cambrai (1917)|Battle of Cambrai]] and the tank operations for the autumn offensives of 1918. His [[Plan 1919]] for a fully mechanised offensive against the German army was never implemented. After 1918, in January of which he was promoted to brevet lieutenant colonel,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30450|page=10|date=28 December 1917|supp=y}}</ref> he held various leading positions, notably as a commander of an experimental brigade at [[Aldershot]].<ref name=":1" />

After the war Fuller, who in January 1919 was promoted to brevet colonel in recognition of "valuable services rendered in connection with the War",<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31097|page=87|date=31 December 1918|supp=y}}</ref> collaborated with his colleague [[B. H. Liddell Hart]] in developing new ideas for the [[mechanisation]] of 
armies, launching a crusade for the mechanisation and modernisation of the British Army.<ref name=":0" /> Chief instructor at the [[Staff College, Camberley]] from 1923, he served at the War Office as a GSO1<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33135|page=1339|date=23 February 1926}}</ref> became military assistant to the chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1926. In what came to be known as the "Tidworth Incident", Fuller turned down the command of the [[Experimental Mechanized Force]], which was formed on 27 August 1927. The appointment also carried responsibility for a regular infantry brigade and the garrison of [[Tidworth Camp]] on [[Salisbury Plain]]. Fuller believed he would be unable to devote himself to the Experimental Mechanized Force and the development of mechanized warfare techniques without extra staff to assist him with the additional extraneous duties, which the [[War Office]] refused to allocate. He was promoted to major-general in 1930 and retired three years later to devote himself entirely to writing.<ref>Trythall,  ''"Boney" Fuller: The Intellectual General'' (1977)</ref>