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Following the war he returned to the University of Edinburgh, changed course of study, and graduated M.R.C.V.S in 1922. He went into veterinary practice in Auchterarder and Lochgelly prior to joining the Colonial Veterinary Service in 1926. He served in the Gold Coast (Ghana) before being appointed in 1948 as the Director of the Joint Veterinary Services for Sierra Leone and The Gambia.
 
During the Second World War he served withas the Northern Territories sectionsecond-in-command of the GoldNorthern CoastTerritories Home Guard. In 1940 he survived being torpedoed whilst on board the MV ''Accra''. In the 1950s he worked for the Ministry of Agriculture travelling throughout Scotland inoculating cattle in the campaign to make all dairy herds tuberculosis free. Later he helped establish Liberia’s veterinary service on behalf of United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation.
 
At the time of his death he was 5 months away from reaching 100 years of age. In 1928 Adam married Jane Kelso, the daughter of Fife local council politician and businessman, Hugh Kelso. Fifty years later in 1988 Adam and Jane Fulton celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.
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