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RAMC profile of:
Benjamin Allen BULL L.M.S.S.A.
 
 


Place or Date
of Birth:
Huddersfield on 19th November 1887

Service Number:

TF Number:

Rank: t.Capt

Unit:

Attached To: 2/3rd London Regiment

Enlistment Location:

Also Served: See below

Outcome: Killed in action

Date Died: 16/09/1917
Age Died:

Where Buried and/or Commemorated: Belgium - Bard Cottage Cemetery, Boesinghe

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Other Information:

Benjamin was educated at Rydal Mount School, Colwyn Bay; at Jesus College, Oxford, where he won an Exhibition, and obtained First Class Honours in Mathematical Moderations, and a First Class in the Final Honour School of Physiology; and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, entering in September 1912. In August 1914 he joined the Royal Navel Volunteer Reserve as Surgeon Probationer, and served on H.M.S. “Lysander”. He then returned to St Bartholomew’s Hospital where he finished his course and qualified L.M.S.S.A. in 1915. He took a temporary commission in the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) in 1916 and joined the 2/2nd Home Counties Field Ambulance. When taking out a draft of men to the Expeditionary Force on the Western Front the ship was wrecked. He and all the were saved but he was immediately returned to the UK. After a week he returned to France and was attached as the medical officer to the London Regiment. He was promoted to Captain after one years service. Benjamin was killed by a shell, which burst outside his Aid Post, near Ypres, where he was attending to a wounded man. His Colonel wrote: “Capt Bull was a most gallant and capable officer, in whom I placed the greatest confidence, and his loss will de deeply felt by all those who were associated with him. His cheery spirits and devotion to duty were the admiration of all ranks.” One brother officer wrote: “I only know him for three or four months, but I got to love the big, generous heart of him. He was so bright, cheerful, keen with such amazing capacity for appreciating life, and an entirely attractive sense of humour. His wit kept our mess alive, and where he had been most caustic and censorious, he invariably balanced things by behaving in a manner that was as charming and attractive as could be - a manner which reminded on of a very perfect Irish gentleman. He died doing his duty.” Another brother officer wrote: Capt Bull as kindness itself to me, often going a long way out of his way to do little kindnesses. His treatment of the soldiers was most sympathetic; more so than that of most medical officers. He was fearless under fire, and our Commanding Officer told me that he had put his name down for a Decoration.” Benjamin was the only son of Professor Bull of 83 Wilbraham Road, Charlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.


 
Additional Information: Date Added: Friday 26 July, 2013
 
Benjamin's final resting place [Photograph taken by Barbara Janman]


  
 
 
 
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