Career
During World War I he served in the 27th Battery, Australian Field Artillery, part of the First Australian Imperial Force, enlisting as a Gunner on 28 October 1916 and retiring as a Sergeant in 1919. In October of that year, he married Marion Lovejoy in London, with whom he would later have five sons (including Richard Fullagar, a future Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria). After returning to Australia, he was employed by the Government of Australia, first in the Repatriation Department, and then in the Department of Immigration. He was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1922.
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