Arthur Fulton (sport shooter)

Arthur Fulton

DCM MBE

Photographed in France, probably May 1915
Personal information
Full name	Arthur George Fulton
Born	(1887-09-16)16 September 1887 Battersea, London, England
Died	26 January 1972(1972-01-26) (aged 84) Pirbright, Surrey, England
Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Sergeant
Unit	Queen's Westminsters
Wars	First World War
Awards	Distinguished Conduct Medal Victory Medal (United Kingdom) 1914 Star British War Medal
Sport
Sport	Sports shooting
Medal record Men's shooting Representing  United Kingdom Olympic Games 1908 London Team military rifle 1912 Stockholm Team military rifle

Arthur George Fulton DCM MBE (16 September 1887 – 26 January 1972) was a British sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics. He was the first person to win the prestigious King's Prize at Bisley three times, a record not matched until 1996 – over twenty years after his death.

At the 1908 Olympics, Fulton won a silver medal in the team military rifle event. Four years later, he won the silver medal in the team military rifle event, was sixth in the 300 metre military rifle, three positions event and placed ninth in the 600 metre free rifle event. He won his first King's Prize in 1912, and placed second in the same competition in 1914. During the First World War, he served as a machine-gunner and sniper, and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) for gallantry. For most of his life, he worked in the armourer's shop established by his father, George Edmonton Fulton, at Bisley Camp, the centre of British rifle shooting.

Fulton won the King's Prize again in 1926 and in 1931. During the Second World War, he served as an officer in the Home Guard. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1959 for services to shooting. On his death, he was described in the shooting press as "the most famous rifle shot the world has ever known".^[1]