His father, George Fulton, a captain in the Royal Engineers, was killed at Lucknow in 1857.
[2] Fred Fulton was educated at Cheltenham College in England[3] and then moved to New Zealand, arriving in Dunedin in 1868.
He was scutching flax at the mill where he worked in Outram, just outside Dunedin, when his arm was drawn into the machine and broken in several places.
The arm was saved by Professor Duncan McGregor at Dunedin Hospital, using Joseph Lister's recently discovered principles of antisepsis.
[9] He was a member of the Napier firm of land agents Harvey, Fulton and Hill.