James G. Bullock

Lt-Col. E.J. Jerram

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Lieutenant-Colonel E.J. Jerram
1/7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

I suppose anti-climax was getting a hold on me. Lumps kept on coming to my throat. There was next to nothing left of my company … It was depressing to see the remnants of the [rest of] the battalion … They didn’t look more than a hundred . . . out of some 500 before the battle.

(Quoted in Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man, 353)

Born on 5 January 1903 in Wimbledon, Surrey, Edward Jenner Jerram was commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1923. He was promoted to captain in 1935 and served as a company commander for the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwicks in the Battle of France for which he earned the Military Cross.

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Lt-Col. J.G. Bullock

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Lieutenant-Colonel J.G. Bullock
7th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment

Suddenly we heard the well-known sound of the ‘moaning minnies’—the attack was on again and back we went to our trenches, refreshed and ready to carry on the battle. It would be about 11 a.m. when by a stroke of bad luck, the commanding officer Lieutenant-Colonel J.G. Bullock and Lieutenant Spendlove (intelligence officer) were killed by mortar fire.

(Your Men in Battle, 1945, 33)

Born in April 1907 in Moseley, Worcestershire, James George Bullock was a rugby player, head of a building firm, and graduate of the King Edward’s School. He joined the Territorial Army and was commissioned with the 5th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment in 1926. He was promoted to acting lieutenant-colonel in February 1942 and led the 7th South Staffords to France in late June 1944 as part of the 59th Division.

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