He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) for an action off Dover on 12 May 1942 before being transferred to Alexandria and HMS Mosquito in 1943.

It was here, while conducting raids on Axis shipping to provide supplies to Josip Broz Tito's partisans, that he earned a second bar to his DSC and a Mention in Despatches, as well as the nickname "The Pirate of the Adriatic."

He earned the nickname because he carried commandos and captured dozens of ships intact seizing useful cargo such as tons of goulash and Danish butter.

Thomas G. Fuller's sons, William, Mark, Antony and Simon are active in the Fuller Group of Companies, whose projects include: Rideau Place Retirement Home; Shoppers Drug Mart; The Glebe Centre; City Centre Self Storage Facility; Carleton University Master Plan Phase 1; St. Lawrence College, Ontario, Student Residence; Alfred Lefaivre Water Treatment Plant; Renfrew Water Treatment Plant; The Library of Parliament heritage restoration; Civic Hospital Heart Research and an office building on 90 Murray St.[4] The Thomas G Fuller Trophy is awarded annually to the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve achieving the topmost state of combat readiness.

Captain Thomas G Fuller served as Commodore to the Britannia Boating Club, Ottawa, Ontario 1948–49.

The Fuller Trophy, his uniform and his sword are in a display cabinet in the Commodore's Boardroom at the Britannia Yacht Club.

Patee II (1904), a steam tug acquired as a family brigantine in 1952 by Captain Thomas Fuller.

The Britannia Yacht Club has used the tug, rigged as a pirate ship known as Black Jack since 1983 to train new recruits to sail through the Bytown Brigantine Inc.[5] The Canadian War Museum erected a memorial passageway plaque in his honour: "The name of this passageway honours the late Captain Thomas G. Fuller, D.S.C.

His "Nelson-like" tactics of thwarting, sinking, boarding and capturing enemy shipping revolutionized coastal forces small boat warfare, insufficiently recognized as R.C.N.V.R.