On 2013-07-07 21:57:26 +0000, Tickettyboo said: Thank you to everyone who has pitched in to help, this discussion has gone beyond my original two query points and I am grateful for the input. I am blushing slightly here, my friend loaned me the (very full) file he has with the bits n pieces he has obtained, mostly from official sources. I really am impressed with what he has found, but its a bit higgedly-piggedly and I am trying to go through and list it in a 'time-line'. In there I have found a copy of a press release for the Defence Esates Annual Report in 2000. It says the report features the Fulton block at RAF Cosford. <quote> built in memory of Captain J D B Fulton, regarded as one of the founders of what became the RAF, Captain Fulton commanded one of two Royal Engineer Air Battalions, and was largely responsible for reforming them as the Royal Flying Corps in 1912. </quote> (From other documents in the file, JDBF commanded No 2 Battalion, which was the first 'heavier than air'[planes], Battalion - No 1 was balloons.) <quote> Fulton block was built in memory of Captain Fulton in 1938 at a cost of £250,000 bequeathed by Lady Fulton. </quote> So he 'does' have official-ish confirmation that the block was named for the man whose sword he owns. The Defence Estates seems to have been replaced by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (a rose by any other name). I'll contact them and see if they can shed any light. JDBF's parents were Frederick George Fulton, a shipowner ( name from CWGC entry and occupation from JBDF's entry in the Royal Military Academy Woolwich Register) and Jane Elizabeth (maiden name not yet known) who, according to the 1891 census, was a widow, born c 1848 Yorkshire. Jane Elizabeth died in 1910 and JDBF was her executor. Her probate entry shows she left £8282 10s 10d - which seems to be far short of the £250,000 needed to build the block so I still don't know what relation the Lady Fulton, who made the bequest, was to JDBF. -- Tickettyboo