Lieutenant-Colonel George Bullock
West Nova Scotia Regiment

Would [I] be able to meet the spiritual needs of the men whom then Lieutenant Colonel Bullock had personally recruited and led into this maelstrom? … It was only later, after I had been attached to the West Novas, that I realized the importance of some of the questions Captain Bullock raised during that brief visit. So much was left unsaid.

(L.F. Wilmot, Through the Hitler Line, 11)

Born in Gibraltar on 4 June 1884, Gerald Wetherall Bullock was an Anglican clergyman in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia and an army chaplain who had been twice wounded during the First World War. He went on to join the militia and was active in the Canadian Legion. When critics complained that military camps taught young men bad habits, Bullock defended militia service, arguing that swearing and drinking were more likely to be picked up in civilian society anyway. He became commanding officer of the West Nova Scotia Regiment in 1936 and led the battalion overseas after mobilization four years later.

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