Born in 1924 in Suffolk and brought up in France, he was a cadet during the years 1938–1941 at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth from the age of thirteen.
He served as gunnery and torpedo officer of HM Submarine Seadog in the Far East, 1944–1945,[1] in which capacity he was mentioned in dispatches for distinguished service.
Alexander Fullerton's nine-volume Mariner of England series featuring his hero Nicholas Everard has secured his reputation as one of the finest of modern writers about naval warfare.
A series of novels about a female agent of the World War II British Special Operations Executive ("SOE") in Nazi-occupied France.
Fullerton's protagonist, Rosie Ewing, may have been inspired by the real-life experiences of decorated SOE agent Odette Sansom Hallowes.