Malvern College First World War Casualty

2nd Lieut Gervas Frederick Bullock

Photo of Gervas Frederick Bullock
House and time at Malvern: Sch, 1895 - 1900.

Regiment: South Wales Borderers.
Died: 31 July 1917 aged 35 in Belgium. Killed in action at Pilkem Ridge.
Battle: Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). Cemetery: Ypres Menin Gate P 22

Son of F. D. O. Bullock, 59 Mount Park Road, Ealing, b. 1882.
Lower V—Remove. Minor Scholar. School Prefect. Head of House. XI Football; Shooting VIII; XL Cricket. Lieutenant in Corps. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; B.A.; was in Ceylon.
Great War, Private Inns of Court O.T.C. 1914; 2nd Lieutenant 1915 11th Bn. South Wales Borderers.

'He was in Ceylon when war was declared and came home to join the Inns of Court O. T. C. Receiving his commission in the South Wales Borderers in January 1916, he went to the front in the following June. He was killed in action on July 31st, 1917.' (Malvernian, Nov 1917).

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