Photo: Brian Chandler
Photo: Brian Chandler
In St. Giles' Churchyard is a family headstone which reads:-
In
Loving Memory of
John Harle Bullock
Who was Killed in Action in France
28th Feb. 1918 aged 26 years
Also of William Bullock
Who died at Camp Hill
9th March 1918 aged 28 years
Dearly beloved sons of William and
Annie Jane Bullock of Camp Hill
They were lovely in their lives and
in their deaths were not divided
Also of
Thomas Kitchen Bullock
Who died at Camp Hill
2nd May 1918 aged 58 years
Also the above William Bullock
Who died 3rd Sep.1934 aged 77 years
A second headstone reads :-
In loving memory of William
Dearly beloved husband of
Maggie Burns Bullock
Who died at Camp Hill
9th March 1918
Aged 28 years
Also of William Harle
Their son who died in infancy.
In Corbridge Cemetery is a family grave for Harle which reads:
In loving remembrance
of
Ann,
wife of John Harle
Corbridge,
who died April 6th 188-
aged 72 years.
John Harle
husband of the above
who died March 25th 189-
aged 76 years.
Also
John Harle Bullock
grandson of the above
killed in France Feb: 28th
1918,aged 26 years.
Also Annie Jane Bullock
daughter of the above
died Jan: 11th 1936, aged 80 years.
North Tyne Magazine, Vol.XXVIII, no.300, April 1918, page 5 carries this report on the death of Pte. Bullock and his brother:
Mr. and Mrs. W. Bullock, of Camp Hill, lost two of their three sons. “Pte. William Bullock, Cyclist, East Yorkshire Regt., joined the army in July, 1916, but his delicate health made it plain to those who knew him well that military service would be a strain to which his strength was quite unequal, and the anticipation proved only too well founded; after serving for a period of a year, the seeds of lung disease rapidly developed, and under this he gradually sank, and died in his own home on March 9th.
John Bullock, the youngest brother, enlisted in October, 1916, and joined the Coldstream Guards. He fell, on active service, on February 28th dying instantaneously from the explosion of an enemy shell.”
Acknowledgement: Tony Harding
John Harle Bullock is remembered at Chollerton on C35.01
