Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

01/07/1915

Date of Discharge

29/05/1917

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

02/09/1895

Place of Birth

Orange NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Archibald Fullarton (father), Govett Street, Randwick NSW

Final Rank

Captain

Final Unit

30 Battalion AIF

Military Cross (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No.184, 14 December 1916)

Fullarton entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in March 1913 and graduated on 28 June 1915. He embarked in November 1915 as a Lieutenant with the 30th Battalion and arrived in France in June 1916. On 19 July 1916 the 30th Battalion (part of the 5th Division of the AIF) was involved in the Battle of Fromelles on the left flank. Fullarton was awarded the Military Cross for his conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in action when "though wounded in two places at the commencement of the operations, he refused to go back, but continued to assist his Commanding Officer in the front trench under heavy fire for fifteen hours. He was finally severely wounded by shrapnel". In fact, Fullarton was wounded in the back and the left arm. After treatment he rejoined the 30th Battalion in October that year with the rank of Captain but returned to Australia in March 1917. He remained in the army after his discharge from the AIF and by the beginning of World War 2 was a Lieutenant Colonel. He would serve in New Guinea during the war. Fullarton died on 6 June 1952.

Description - height 5 feet 6 inches, weight 154 pounds, chest 34 inches, Presbyterian.

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
AWM Honours & Awards
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Stories from the ACT Memorial, 'The Honour Guard at the Canberra Commencement Ceremony', ACT Heritage Library www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/stories_from_the_act_memorial
Stories from the ACT Memorial, 'Hell Opened at Fromelles', ACT Heritage Library www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/stories_from_the_act_memorial
Sydney Morning Herald - 7 June 1952
Sydney Mail - 27 September 1916