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Excerpt from 1956 - 1957 Jubilee yearbook for Redruth County Grammar School:
Courtesy of Brian Johns .... SCHOOLBOY WITH HIS SATCHEL”

Frederick Otto FAULL (Tree2) is mentioned on 3 occasions

Members of staff  1907-1916:  T. Shopland (Headmaster, 1907-1931), S. M. Douglas, F. E. Richards, A. H. Harries, H. C. Mimer, R. Williams, H. E. Russell, L. T. Polglase, W. Howarth, D. M. Nicholls, G. H. Ridout, J. A. Hancox, F. W. J. Bradfield, J. Knight, A. S. Williams, H. W. R. Haselhurst, H. E. S. Dransfield, W. R. Smith, T. C. Bennett, C. S. Hedgeland, A. Pullan, W. W. J. Carl, T. H. Visick, E. W. Thomas, H. W. Rodwell, W. J. Eathorne, Miss M. W. Cane, Miss B. M. Frost, Miss B. Carter, W. Penaluna
Members of staff  1917-1926: J. H. J. Beecroft, L. Treloar, Miss E. M. Carter, L. B. van Schoor, W. E. Barnes, J. P. Hensley, B. H. Oates, F. V. Dempster, B. Williams, L. W. K. Happé, G. C. Stevenson, P. Haworth, H. B. Faulkner, C. Clark, C. J. Phillips, H. Young, A. C. Hambly, W. H. Teasdale.

Our present field was first used in the 1912-13 season. In that year, on April 5th, 1913, the first C.S.S.A.U. Soccer Final was played on the D.C.L.I. Ground at Bodmin, to which, as Western winners, we traveled by train. The home side, Bodmin County School, won by one goal to nil—deservedly as far as one can remember. They were much encouraged, however, by the enthusiastic support of about 250 soldiers and their schoolmates. Anyhow in future all Shield Finals were played on neutral grounds. Our XI was I. V. Gardener; F. 0. FAULL, W. C. M. (“ Andrew”) Richards (Capt.); J. S. Hancock, M. Thomas, C. Clark; F. W. Bennett, H. Stribley, S. J. Paull, P. W. Lang, H. A. Downing. I do not know why I was included, but it was probably owing to a regular being injured or players leaving at Christmas. Anyhow, strange though it may seem now to some readers, I was the youngest player on the field. Unhappily for two or three of us we not only lost the match, but our Thursday half holiday as well, receiving detention cards for having missed the return train. The School XI made amends, however, in the following year, on March 26th, 1914, at St. Austell, by winning by four goals to nil against Liskeard County School, although without Percy Lang, the 1913-14 captain, a brilliant ball player, who left school at half term. It included what was known as “the St. Agnes forward line,” and every other St. Agnes boy was an onlooker. A keen Redruth supporter gave each goal scorer a threepenny bit, and I was lucky. We were also given tea in the town, caught the train, and, well remembered, is our near loss of the Shield when Jack Gardenner, expert goalie and acting captain, held it, wide out through the window, almost touching, it seemed, the surprised signalman at Burngullow as he shouted “It’s ours!” Reverting to 1913, although depleted by first choice withdrawals, owing to injury, our Athletics team put up a grand show in the first C.S.S.A.U. Sports, held at St. Austell in July, 1913, Bodmin C.S. narrowly winning the Championship

Cricket conditions had now improved with the acquisition of the field, but it will be well understood when I state that scores were still rather low. Nevertheless, there were some able players, who were later to prove themselves in higher spheres. A highlight of the 1914 season was our reception, on two occasions, at Carclew, then the stately home of the Tremaynes, whither we journeyed by waggonette and bicycles. We won both games; in the first Otto FAULL, 60 not out, and in the second Mr. Polglase, 63, played splendid innings. A sumptuous tea was provided in a huge barn, and at both games, the house party and visitors alike, did justice to the liberal spread. The School Sports were still held at the Recreation Ground, which was also the venue of the second C.S.S.A.U. meeting, in which our under 15 sports day star, Jack Gale, had the misfortune to break an arm in jumping 5ft. in the Open High. The Senior Trophy again went to Bodmin, and we were jointly second with Penzance in Junior events, in which W. G. Bennetts, also a first rate cricketer, performed well.
It was with justifiable pride that the Headmaster reported in 1924 that in the previous four years boys who had proceeded to the Universities had gained five First Class Honours, four Second Class, one Third Class, one M.A., four ordinary degrees, two Associates in Engineering, 14 First Class Diplomas of the School of Metalliferous Mining, and F. 0. FAULL had passed the Final Examination of the Institute of Bankers. One of the Old Boys, Mr. C. Clark, joined the Staff in April, 1924, and was happy to find a most virile community eager to absorb his classroom technique and to provide him with full scope in his insatiable love of field games. He was lucky, too, in being one of the five Masters and 76 boys in the Cornish contingent which visited London and the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. We were accommodated in an old munitions factory at Acton; it was a restless first night, and one of the Masters, whose big toe was tweaked a few times, overslept, so that when Stanley anointed William with shaving soap, great was the fun of the excited onlookers at the ensuing struggle. We visited the Houses of Parliament and were received by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales at St. James’ Palace. At the Exhibition, one of the boys, in his haste to cross from one Pavilion to another, had the misfortune to run into an ornamental pond. It was a quieter night which followed, and after another full day we entrained for a night journey home.

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Frederick Otto FAULL (known as Otto) bn 3 Dec 1894 Blackwater (Dec Qtr 1894 5c 147 Truro)
Birth cert:- bn 4 Dec 1894 Blackwater Kenwyn - Three Burrows is crossed out in favour of Blackwater son of  Henry FAULL, tin miner retired, of Blackwater Kenwyn and Joanna OATES - Johanna is written with the 'h' in but has been crossed out. Registered on 16 Jan 1895 by Henry FAULL Registrar John WINN Register No 189
War Service Record
1915 – 5ft 9 ins , wt 151lbs, chest 37ins with 3ins expansion, physical dev – good; 2 vaccination marks from infancy, fresh complexion, brown eyes and brown hair.
Home address Rose Cottage, Blackwater Scorrier,
10 Aug 1915 Degree Student at University College Reading, (Principal was W M CHILDS) also a Cadet Student at Univ Coll Reading Officers Training Corp.
29 May 1916 Military Hosp Hursley Winchester, 2nd Lieut, ¾ Batt Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry, age 21, 9mths service, disability Pleural Effusion
28 Jun 1916, 21yrs, 10mths service, disability Pleurisy, Military Hosp Hursley Winchester
17 Jul 1916 weakness and inflamation of left pleural – Military Hosp Falmouth
15 Jan 1918 2nd Lieut 4th Batt 6th Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry
15 Jan 1918 Trench foot – right foot – developed at Passchendaele France, due to exposure to cold and heavy marching in France
25 Jan 1918 2nd Southern Hosp Bristol and Officers Convalescent Home
Apr 1918 Medicat treatment given at Eaton Hall Chester
4 Sep 1918 Reported to 4th Reserve Batt DCLI at Bunerana
Served in WW1 – commemorated on War Memorial in Blackwater  Lieut 4th DCLI (Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry, Capt 5th Hants Territorial,T1240 (1 Jul 1917)

Otto died 98yrs 13 Jan 1992 Furze Hill Lodge, Furze Hill Kingswood Surrey, England . Died of
1a) Bronchopneumonia
1b) Congestive Cardiac failure