Noonans to sell the medals of one of the highest scoring British aces of the Great War who wanted to fight another day
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Noonans to sell the medals of one of the highest scoring British aces of the Great War who wanted to fight another day
Air Commodore P. F. Fullard of the Royal Air Force and Royal Flying Corps. Photo Courtesy of Noonans.



LONDON.- 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 a sale of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. They are being sold by a collector and are estimated to fetch £40,000-60,000.




As Christopher Mellor-Hill, Head of Client Liaison at Noonans commented: “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.”

He continued: “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.”

In later life Fullard reflected on his career and said: “Far too much has been made about “knights of the air” and chivalry... you couldn’t have operated like that... I just felt that I wanted to survive... and my best way of doing it was to kill the other fellow. I had no qualms about going down again and shooting him to pieces, I mean, I wasn’t going to be insulted in that way... But if you met 12 or 24 of them, as you did sometimes, well then discretion is the better part of valour. It’s no use just fighting and killing one and then being killed... You want to fight another day.”

He also featured on the front cover of Tatler in January 1918. He participated in the Second World War and lived to the age of 86 years.










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