An outstanding group of 11 medals that were awarded to Air Commodore P. F. Fullard of the Royal Air Force and Royal Flying Corps who, at only 20-years-old, had 40 confirmed aerial victories in just eight months during 1917 (and is likely to have had many more if he hadn’t broken his leg in a football match) will be offered at Noonans in Mayfair in a sale of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday 15th March. They are being sold by a collector and are estimated to fetch £40,000–£60,000.
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'We are very pleased to be selling the prestigious medals of Philip Fletcher Fullard, who by the end of the Great War was the seventh highest scoring British Ace and the second highest living,' Christopher Mellor-Hill, Head of Client Liaison at Noonans commented.
'Fullard’s war was cut short, not by a German bullet but by a fracture of his leg sustained during an off-duty football match in November 1917! What could have been, had he not broken his leg, can only be guessed, but Fullard’s ratio for front line flying time to the number of aerial victories obtained would be unsurpassed by any of the British Aces who had more victories during the Great War. Had Fullard carried on flying, it is quite possible he could have surpassed the victory score of any Ace of any nation.'
He featured on the front cover of Tatler in January 1918. He also participated in the Second World War and lived to the age of 86 years.
