No.46597. Private, Oscar Charles BULL
Aged 23
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Charles Oscar BULL was born in 1895 (2nd qtr Bury St.Edmunds 4a:806) son of John and Emma BULL (née HARROLD). He is Oscar everywhere except birth registration.
1901 census...Aged 6, he was at 72 Cannon Street, Bury St.Edmunds with his father John BULL [40] cattle drover; his mother Emma [39]; sisters Ella [17] factory machinist, Agnes [15] day domestic servant, Daisy [10], Annie [8] and Florence [6] ; brother George [12]; grandmother Emma HARRALD [70] born Rattlesden. All except his grandmother were born in Bury St.Edmunds 1911 census...Aged 15, a moulder, he was at Cadney Lane, Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds with his parents (father now labourer); sisters Daisy, Annie and Florence,(all laundresses) Molly [7] and Dolly [5]; cousin Lily MORTIMER [15]. Gratuity claimant on pension card was sister Mrs Ella TOWLER, Electric Cottage, Playfield, Bury St.Edmunds. She is also recorded as his sole legatee. CWGC have his parents at Grayfield Cottages, Bury St.Edmunds. His mother died in 1912, his father died in 1917. |
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He enlisted in Stowmarket in A.S.C. no.A/966. Arriving in France with the ASC on 19th August implies he was a Regular or Reservist. Two possible reasons for no clasp to his 1914 Star 1) He never came within range of enemy guns or 2) no-one claimed the clasp.
1st June 1918 - 18th Bn took part in an attack to take some high ground at Aveluy Woods. Advancing from Heathcotes Bank, which is quite near Mesnil-Martinsart. There was a ravine running between Martinsart and Aveluy Woods which was rushed by a Patoon of the 18th Bn. They captured the high ground but then came under heavy machine gun fire from another nearby hill to the South and were forced to withdraw. The 18th Bn suffered 20 killed and 144 wounded.
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