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[[File:Fulton, Adam Heaton Park, 1918.jpg|thumb|275px|Adam at Heaton Park Camp, 1918]]
After a month at Harrogate and some home leave, I was sent to Heaton Park, Manchester,<ref group="note">'''<small>(hf):</small>''' Believed to be Heaton Park camp,
About the middle of 1918, I was considered fit enough to return to my regiment, the [[3rd Border Regiment]] in camp at Crosby, Liverpool.<ref group="note">'''<small>(hf):</small>''' Believed to be at Blundellsands, Crosby, Liverpool.</ref> I remained with the 3rd Border Regiment until after the [[Armistice]] doing mostly extra-regimental duties, i.e. duties outside company work and troop training. I conducted drafts of reinforcements to France on two occasions - and delivered them complete despite likely desertions. For several weeks I was attached to Lord Forrester’s staff for the reception of American troops on their disembarkation at Liverpool. Military bands played throughout and well-medalled [[NCO|N.C.O,’s]] handed out to each soldier H.M. The Kings Letter of Welcome.
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Early in January, 1919, I with Lieutenant Sangers (a son of Lord George Sangers, a well known circus proprietor) were sent to join the [[2nd Border Regiment]] which was in the 8th Division of the Army in Northern Italy. [By now he had reverted to temporary Lieutenant.] We had an interesting journey out being on our own, unhampered by troops. We spent a day each at Havre, Paris (with a meal at Maximes), Turin, Milan and Verona before reporting to the Battalion. Lieut Colonel Meiklejohn was in command and he was not at all pleased when I let him know I was a medical student and so due for demobilisation. Within a few weeks I was on my return to the U.K. This time in charge of a draft of Gordon Highlanders for demobilisation. After an adventurous train journey through France, I delivered the draft, nearly complete, to a depot on the coast - then went on by myself to Edinburgh where I was demobilised."
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[Adam Fulton actually changed his course of study and qualified as a
He was there for 25 years later moving to Sierra Leone and the Gambia. He was virtually unaffected by the Second World War except when once when returning from leave in the U.K. when the ship he was travelling on, the M.V. Accra, was torpedoed in Mid-Atlantic; there were 22 deaths amongst the crew, mainly in the engine room, but no passengers were hurt. He had rather an uncomfortable time before being taken back to Liverpool.
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|colspan="2"|The following dates and locations of service are copied from his original Record of Service (Army book 439)
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|10 March 1915||Commissioned [[2nd Lieutenant]]
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|April 1915 - June 1915||[[3rd Border Regiment]]
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|28 August 1918 - 31 December 1918 ||3rd Border Regiment
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|31st December 1918 - January 1919||[[2nd Border Regiment]]
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|February 1919||Demobilised
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