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Surname: BULLOCK
Forename(s): George Robert
Place of Birth: Settle, Yorkshire
Service No: 68373
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Battalion / Unit: 40th Coy
Division: 13th (Western) Division
Age: 20
Date of Death: 1917-07-18
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: XX. E. 16.
CWGC Cemetery: BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SETTLE, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
George Robert Bullock was the son of Robert and Mary Ann Bullock, née Thomas. Robert was born at Settle, Yorkshire and Mary at Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham.
1901 Settle, Yorkshire Census: Constitution Hill - George Robert Bullock, aged 4 years, born Settle, son of Robert and Mary Ann Bullock.
1911 Settle, Yorkshire Census: Town Head Cottages - George Robert Bullock, aged 14 years, born Settle, son of Robert and Mary Ann Bullock.
The British Army Service Record for George Robert Bullock exists but may be incomplete.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte George R. Bullock, 68373, M.G.C.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte George Robert Bullock, 68373, M.G.C. Died 18.7.17.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte George Robert Bullock, 68373, 40th Coy M.G.C. Date and Place of Death: 18.7.17. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Father - Robert. £9 8s. 2d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for George. Name(s) on card(s): Dependant: Mrs Mary Ann Bullock. Relationship: Mother. Deceased. Dependant: Robert Bullock. Relationship: Father. Address: Castle Hill, Settle, Yorks.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
BULLOCK, George, [Settle], aged 20, M.G.C., died from heat stroke, Mesopotamia.
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Private George Robert BULLOCK
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 13th (Western) Division
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10 August 1917
BULLOCK - Died of heat stroke in Mesopotamia, Private George Bullock, Machine Gun Corps, son of Mr. Robert Bullock, Castle Hill, Settle, aged 20 years.
10 August 1917
ANOTHER SETTLE MAN DIES FOR HIS COUNTRY
The sad news has been received by Mr. Robert Bullock of Castle Hill, Settle, that his son, Private George Bullock, of the Machine Gun Corps, had died of heatstroke in Mesopotamia. Private Bullock was twenty years of age, and after training left England on 18th February last. Prior to the war he was employed at the Craven Lime Works, Settle.
19 July 1918
BULLOCK - In loving remembrance of our dear son and brother, George Robert Bullock, M.G.C., died in Mesopotamia from heat stroke, July 18th, 1917.
A light is from our household gone,
A voice we love is stilled;
A place is vacant at our hearth
Which never can be filled.
From his Father, Mother, Brother and Sisters and Brother Willie in France.
18 July 1919
BULLOCK - In loving memory of our dear son and brother, George Robert, beloved son of Robert and Mary Ann Bullock, who died in Mesopotamia, of heatstroke, July 18th, 1917, in his 21st year.
We miss thee when the morning dawns,
We miss thee when the night returns;
We miss thee here, we miss thee there,
My dear, we miss thee everywhere.
From his loving Father, Mother, Sisters and Brother and Willie (in Germany).
15 July 1921
BULLOCK - In loving memory of our dear son and brother, Pte. George Robert Bullock, who died of heatstroke in Mesopotamia, July 18th, 1917.
If we could have been by his side
To hear his last faint sigh,
Or whisper just one loving word
Before he closed his eyes.
We never knew the pain he bore,
And never saw him die;
We only know he passed away
And never said good-bye.
Ever remembered by his Father, Mother, Brothers and Sisters, Settle.
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10 August 1917
BULLOCK - In Mesopotamia, from heat stroke, Pte. George Bullock of the Machine Gun Corps, son of Mr. Robert Bullock, of Castle Hill, Settle, aged 20.
10 August 1917
ANOTHER SETTLE MAN DIES FOR HIS COUNTRY
The sad news has been received by Mr. Robert Bullock, of Castle, Settle, that his son, Pte. George Bullock, of the Machine Gun Corps, had died of heat stroke in Mesopotamia. Pte. Bullock was 20 years of age. After training he left England on Feb. 18th last. Prior to the war he was employed at the Craven Lime Works, Settle.
4 January 1918
SETTLE'S FALLEN HEROES
Memorial Service at the Parish Church
A memorial service for the Settle soldiers who have fallen in the war was held at the Parish Church last Sunday afternoon. There was a large congregation, and the service was conducted by Rev. W. E. Linney (vicar). The hymns 'God of the living in Whose eyes,' 'Jesus lives,' 'On the resurrection morn,' and ' O God our help in aged past' were sung, and the 'Last Post' was sounded at the close of the service by two of the local Cadets. The organist (Mr. F. Lord) also played appropriate music as the congregation assembled and left the church.
The Vicar, in the course of his sermon, said they were met to remember the Settle soldiers, men, and boys - some indeed little more than boys - who had laid down their lives for the country at the war, whether during the year which was just drawing to a close or in the earlier stages of the conflict. When he asked them to remember those heroes that day, he knew that he was asking them to do what they were always doing. They were their own dear ones united to many of them by ties of blood - husbands, fathers, brothers, sons, as well as friends. How could they forget them? Were they not reminded of them day by day by the gaps in their home circles, which could never again be filled by them? They all desired in their hearts that God would bless and keep them, and give them peace. and happiness. The Vicar then read the following list of the Settle men who had laid down their lives:- John Edward Bell, Geo. S. Belles, Fredk. Baldwin, John Barrett, Robert Bateson, William Bradley, Frank Bulcock, George R. Bullock, Herbert Clark, John Cokell, Edward Ellershaw, Jas. Ewart, Wm. Ewart, Fredk. Frost, Harold Goss, Alfred Gower, Joseph Lord, John Morphet, John Packard, Chas. Peachey, Thomas Howarth Preston, Albert Ralph, Thos. Stackhouse, George Edward Turner, Derwent Turnbull, Wm. Troughton, Harry Walton, John Edward Wilson, Ernest Wooff, and Robert Wooff. Proceeding, the Vicar said they had a responsibility with regard to those men. They owed them a debt, and he trusted and believed that they were wishful to do all that they could to repay it. " Our lives are being saved by their death. If we have any future before us on the earth it is because they gave up their futures to secure it. Their right to survive was as good as our own. Many of them would have been of far more use in the world than we can hope to be. The future stands to be only poorer for our surviving in their stead. We are debtors to them for all they have given us. To the future think of all it has lost in them." How were they going to pay the debt, and in paying it to honour their heroic dead? Surely there could be but one answer - to live to give effect to their ideals. When they were asked what those ideals were, they might be well put in the words of Bishop Walshaw How's hymn written for the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria, "To make the world a better world for man's brief earthly dwelling." If Prussian militarism should gain the ascendancy the world would be scarcely a fit place to live in. What they wanted was the triumph of right and liberty. That was the task they had begun, and many of them, fired by the enthusiasm of a noble cause, literally went singing to their death. The old life which had no loftier aim than a high standard of material comfort had been felt to be unsatisfactory. To ardent youth the higher spirit of self-sacrifice, which was the spirit of Christ, beckoned onward with irresistible attractiveness, and they followed the gleam. They had yet to complete the great task to which they dedicated themselves. That was the way they could honour the memory of their fallen heroes, and with confidence that they had not died in vain.
A collection taken on behalf of the Red Cross Society realised £5 15s.
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