BULL, John Wallace
| Service Number: | 7122 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 October 1916, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, May 1894 |
| Home Town: | Williamstown, Hobsons Bay, Victoria |
| Schooling: | St Johns College, East St Kilda, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Menin Road, Ypres, Belgium, 20 September 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Williamstown Pictorial Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7122, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 23 Nov 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 7122, 5th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Nov 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 7122, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 20 Sep 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 7122, 5th Infantry Battalion, Menin Road, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 7122 awm_unit: 5 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-09-20 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"Private J. W. Bull REPORTED KILLED
Word was officially received in Williamstown by Mr J. Bull, of the dockyard, that his son, Private John Wallace Bull, had been killed in action. He had been twelve months on active service. For some time he was on the local Post Office staff. At the time of enlisting, he was a student for the Church of England ministry." - from the Williamstown Advertiser 20 Oct 1917 (nla.gov.au)
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From How We Served
7122 Lance Corporal John Wallace Bull of Williamstown, Victoria had been studying as a Theological student when he enlisted for War Service on the 5th of October 1916.
Allocated to reinforcements for the 5th Battalion, 1st AIF, John embarked for England and further training on the 23rd of November before joining his Unit in the trenches of Northern France on the 12th of May 1917.
John's Battalion was committed to the 'Third Battle of Ypres', and it was during these operations, that John was Killed in Action on the 20th of September 1917 in the vicinity of the Menin Road. John was aged 23 & he received a hasty burial in the field near Glencourse Wood. John's grave was later lost, and by War's end he still had no known point of burial.
Due to having no recorded grave, John's name was added to the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium.
Back in Australia, the supreme sacrifice made by John during 'The Great War' was privately commemorated at the Bull family's burial site within Williamstown Cemetery, Victoria.
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