Name
Albert Edward Bull
27 August 1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/08/1914
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Fitter
42616
Royal Field Artillery
118th Bty. 26th Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETREUX BRITISH CEMETERY
I. 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Not on the Bishop’s Stortford memorials (*1)
Pre War
Born Farnham, Surrey, on 27 Aug. 1890 to Edward Bull, Steward at the Bishop's Stortford Golf Club, late Sergt.-Major, Rifle Brigade, by his wife, Annie Maria, clan. of Mathew Barnard.
Educated at Army Schools and joined the Army on 5 March, 1906, and was trained as a fitter at the Ordnance College, Woolwich.
Wartime Service
Fitter, No. 42616, 118th Battery, Royal Field Artillery and went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914,
He was at first reported missing, and later killed in action by one one of the only two survivors of the two gun sections of the 118th Battery, who was exchanged as disabled in Feb. 1915, it was learnt that Bull was knocked over and killed on 27 Aug. 1914, as he was taking out a round from the ammunition boxes to hand up to the gun at Etreux during the retreat from Mons.
Additional Information
*1 The St Albans Cathedral Diocese records suggest a connection to Bishop’s Stortford which was confirmed in other records..
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
