Photo: B. Chandler
In Newcastle upon Tyne (St.Nicholas) Cemetery is a headstone which reads:
John Aynsley Pullan
Flight Lieut. 3rd D.L.I.
fell in action in France
Nov. 28 1917
aged 21 years.
William Stanley Pullan
L.C. ?2205 London Regiment
fell in action
before Jerusalem, Dec. 8th 1917
aged 19 years.
Nellie Aysnley Pullan
Oct. 7th 1905, died Sept. 19th 1906
In front of it is a cross bearing the words:
1914
Lest we forget
Colin Boyd has provided the following:
William was born in 1898, the son of Alfred and Nellie Pullan of 55, Woodbine Road, Gosforth.
He was educated at Rutherford College, Newcastle upon Tyne. He was a member of Durham University OTC and enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 20/08/1915.
William transferred to the London Regiment and served in France and Salonika before joining the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine.
William was killed at the siege of Jerusalem on 09/12/1917.
His brother John Aynsley Pullan also died.
William Stanley Pullan is remembered in Durham on D47.013 page 323, in Elswick on E35.09, in Gosforth on G9.21, G9.22 and G9.23 and in Newcastle on NUT070 and NUT126 page 27
