Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

03/11/1914

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

18/11/1894

Place of Birth

Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Maria Fulton (mother), Pilgrim Street, Footscray, Victoria

Burial Place

No known burial place

Final Rank

Major

Final Unit

47 Battlalion AIF

Died (killed in action), 7 August 1916, Pozières, France aged 21 years

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 143, Canberra ACT
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT

Fulton entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon with the second intake on 7 March 1912. He was a member of the guard of honour at the Canberra naming ceremony on 12 March 1913. He graduated from RMC early, slong with his classmates, on 2 November 1914 and was commissioned as a lieutenant in C Squadron of the 7th Light Horse Regiment. Fulton served on Gallipoli with his regiment from May 1915 until September 1915 when he was evacuated with enteritis. After the Gallipoli campaign Fulton was promoted to captain in March 1916 and transferred to the 47th Battalion then being formed in Egypt. He sailed with his battalion to France in June 1916 and was promoted to the rank of major.

The 47th Battalion was part of the 4th Division of the AIF and was sent into action at Pozières in the Somme region of France in early August 1916 just south of the Windmill. Fulton was commanding officer of B Company and was in the Tramway Trench when, at about 4pm on 7 August he and a number of men were killed in a German bombardment of their position. His body was not recovered.

Description - height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 160 pounds, chest 35-37 inches, Church of England.

AWM Roll of Honour Database
Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)