BULLOCH, William
| Service Number: | 2756 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 July 2016 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 28 September 1883 |
| Home Town: | Arncliffe, Rockdale, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Windmillhill School, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland. |
| Occupation: | Stone Mason |
| Died: | Died of Wounds, France, 31 December 1917, aged 34 years |
| Cemetery: |
Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord Pas de Calais Steenwerck, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France CGRE: 3489 5G Plot 2 Row C Grave 33 Armentieres Personal Inscription: IN ANSWER TO HIS COUNTRY'S CALL HE GAVE HIS BEST HIS LIFE HIS ALL , Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Motherwell War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2756, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
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| 9 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 2756, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 31 Dec 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 2756, 2nd Field Company Engineers, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2756 awm_unit: 2nd Field Company, Australian Engineers awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1917-12-31 | |
| 31 Jul 2016: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 2756 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 33 and the son of William and Catherine Bulloch (nee Thomson); husband of Jeannie D. Richardson (formerly Bulloch), of Dubbo Keiran St., Waverley, New South Wales, previously of East Street, Arncliffe, New South Wales.
Previous military service: Served in the Highland Light Infantry, Territorial Force, Scotland.
Enlistment date 14 August 1916.
His unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A24 Benalla on 9 November 1916
He is remembered on the Motherwell War Memorial, the town of his birth. It was unveiled on 30 October 1921 attended by Lord Claude Hamilton.
It is sited in Duchess of Hamilton Park, Motherwell,
Strathclyde, ML1, Scotland.
Three-stepped base surmounted by a square plinth with posts surmounted by urns at each corner, cenotaph style column and a lion couchant. Four reliefs are carved at each side of the base of the column. Dark polished marble tablets are set in the faces of the plinth with the names. Below the urns are the names of campaigns fought. On the front face of the column is a sword within a wreath. Carved relief on the front face depicts the Motherwell crest flanked by two Scottish soldiers standing at ease. Beside each of them is a kneeling soldier holding out a flag. The right hand relief depicts a naval scene with three ships, a zeppelin and a bi-plane. The rear panel depicts a tank on the battlefield and the left-hand panel depicts a Royal Artillery gun limber moving forward.
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