Albert George Bullock

Western Mail 1 Sep 1916 page 26.
Personal Information
Date of Birth	Not known
Place of Birth	Stawell, Victoria
Death	5 Jan 1938
Place of Death	Murchison district
Age at Enlistment	29 years old
Description	5' 5½" (1.66m) tall; weight 137 lbs (62.1 kg); fresh complexion, blue eyes, brown hair
Occupation	motor driver
Religion	Church of England
Address	NOK Byford, Western Australia during 1915
Next of Kin	Wife Mrs Emma Blanche Bullock
Military Information
Reg Number	1407
Date of Enlistment	23 Aug 1915
Rank	Lance Corporal
Unit/Formation	32nd Battalion, D Company, transferred to Australian Army Motor transport Section, Chelsea.
Date of Embarkation	18 Nov 1915 - 18 Dec 1915
Ship Embarked On	HMAT A2 Geelong
Date of Return	3 Mar 1919 - 10 Apr 1919
Ship Returned On	HMAT A14 Euripides
Fate	Wounded in Action 19 Jul 1916 at Fromelles Returned to Australia
Monument	none at present
Medals	1914-15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal

Pre War

NOK in Byford during 1915 before moving to 169 Charles street, West Perth, Western Australia. It is possible that Albert was also in Byford and is the H Bullock on the memorial for which a match cannot be found.

Electoral Rolls for 1910, 1912, and 1913 have Albert labouring in Goomalling; 1916 entry is for a motor driver living at 205 Charles street, Perth. In 1908 he married Emma Blanche Evenis

War Service

An original member of the 32nd Battalion, which was formed from South Australian (A & B Companies) and Western Australian troop (C & D Companies). After preliminary training in WA, C & D Companies travelled to Adelaide in late September, early October to join their colleagues at Cheltenham Race Course.

Albert travelled with the battalion to Egypt where they performed protective roles for Port Suez and the Canal at El Ferdan and Ismailia before moving to Tel-el-Kebir in early Feb 1916. During the last week of March they relocated to 'Ferry Post' and remain there until they move to Moascar on 30 May 1916. On 16 Jun they entrained for Alexandria and early the next morning boarded the HMT Transylvania.

The Transylvania arrived at Marseilles in France on 23 Jun 1916. While aboard the Transylvania he had spent two days in the ship's hospital with influenza.

On 19 Jul 1916 he received an injury (shell wound to his left knee) when his battalion attacked at Fleurbaix as part of the disastrous Battle of Fromelles. D Company had arrived in the front lines at 5.45pm and with C Company made up the 3rd and 4th wave of attackers. The first wave attacked at 5.53pm and Albert and his group followed soon after.

Seen by No1 Casualty Clearing Station, he was admitted to 32nd Stationary Hospital, but appears to have rejoined his unit soon after, so it might be assumed the wound was minor and had occurred early in the attack.

A month or so later he was admitted to hospital with Trench Feet and was sent back to England on 5 Nov 1916 aboard HMHS Newhaven from Calais. This time he was away from the battalion from 30 Oct 1916 to 1 Aug 1917.

Three months later he was off to hospital in England again on HMHS Panama, this time via the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance; 50th Casualty Clearing Station and 11th Stationary Hospital with I.C.T. Buttocks (Dhobi's itch). He was treated in the 1st London General Hospital before being moved to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield.

Following treatment he enjoyed some leave in England and the normal posting to base units as his health improved before being transferred to the Motor Transport unit at Chelsea.

Before going home he spent some 88 days in Bulford hospital (1st Australian Dermatological Hospital) with Gonorrhoea. One of the earlier ones to be sent home after hostilities cease via the Euripides from Portland, he is marked as having flat feet. Discharged at 5th MD on 11 Jun 1919

Coming Home - Our Returning Heroes - The Euripides' Contingent..L/Cpl Bullock, Albert Geo, 32nd Battalion.

Post War

1921 a motor driver at 34 Fairfield street Balkatta; in 1931 he was described as a depot superintendent living with Emma in Bridgetown before they return to Balcatta where between 1935 and 1937 he had become a fibrous plasterer. Seemingly turned to prospecting from 1937, dying in the Murchison district in 1938.

By 1943 Emma has returned to their Fairfield street address by herself. Emma died on 26 Jul 1967 in Mt Hawthorn.

External Links

Categiry:Returned to Australia