Tyne Cot Memorial
Tyne Cot Memorial: Pauline Priano
Ian Murray has submitted the following:-
Albert’s birth was registered in Howden near Selby, Yorkshire, in 1883 and he lived in Keyingham, near Hull, where his father was an agricultural labourer. His mother, Hannah, died in 1890, when Albert was only seven, leaving her husband William to bring up a family of seven children.
In the last quarter of 1910 Albert married Florence May Newton in Newcastle and their daughter, May was born in 1911.
At the time of the 1911 census, Albert was a groom at Burnhopeside Hall, while at this time his wife was resident at her father’s house, 23, Newton Street, Dunston. Presumably she had just given birth, as the census records a granddaughter less than one month old at the same address but no first name is given.
Albert enlisted in Consett and served with the 15th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. He was killed in action on the 2nd October 1917 aged 34 and is remembered on the memorial at Tyne Cot Cemetery. By the time of his death his wife was living at Station Road, Lanchester.
The Stanley News 22/11/1917 reports:-Pte. A. Bullement (sic) Lanchester, is reported missing. Before joining up he was employed by Mr George Parker, Lanchester.
Awards: British War Medal; Victory Medal.
May Bulleyment died in 1922 at Lanchester. Florence never remarried and died in 1980 in the Gateshead District.
Albert Bulleyment is remembered at Lanchester on L62.01 L62.02 and L62.04
He is also remembered in The DLI Book of Remembrance page 270
