Name
John Ross Bulloch
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
06/10/1943
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Warrant Officer Class II
7887
Federated Malay States Volunteer Force
Armd. Car Regt.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
B4. V. 2.
Myanmar
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Boys’ Grammar School Memorial (WW2), Welwyn Garden City Memorial
Biography
Prior to attending the Hitchin Grammar School from 1925-1930 he was a pupil at a Preparatory School in Clifton. He passed the School Certificate examination and went into the sixth form where he obtained the Oxford Senior School Certificate. He excelled on the hockey field, obtained his colours for Pierson House and was made a prefect. After leaving school, he found employment with the Employers Liability Assurance Corporation and was later sent by them to Malaya and attached to the staff of William Jacks & Co.
On the outbreak of war he served with the Volunteer Force and his rank of W.O. II (Company Serjeant Major) with the Service Number 7887 suggests that he had enlisted some time earlier. He served in an Armoured Car Regiment. He was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore and was put to work in the horrific conditions of the building of the Thailand to Burma Railway. In 1943 he contracted dysentery and died.
He is buried in Plot 84, Row V, Grave 2 in the Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar.
By the Spring of 1946 all that his mother, who lived in Welwyn Garden City, knew of his death was the official confirmation from the Colonial Office.
He was the son of Edmund John, a tea merchant, and Edith May Bulloch of Fulling Mill, Welwyn.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Hitchin Grammar School Chronicle, Hitchin Grammar School Registers, ‘When you go Home’ by A. Lane
