Sergeant Harry Bull

Army Number: 3884

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Elizabeth Penson, of Simon Fields Fram, West Hallam, Derbyshire. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting on 12th August 1914 at Derby into the 3rd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was posted 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 11th November 1914 and posted to the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 15th March 1915. He went to Gallipoli on 23rd August 1915 with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was taken sick and was transferred to hospital at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 4th December 1915. He went to France, on 28th June 1916 and was posted to the 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 20th July 1916. Promoted Corporal 3rd March 1917, and Sergeant 6th July 1917.  He was killed in action, on 12th October 1917, in the attack near Hazebrouck, Belgium. 

Commemorated: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

Sergeant Harry Bull is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Pauls Church War Memorial, Quarndon, Derbyshire. 

His brother Private Thomas Bull, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.