Private Thomas Bull

Army Number: 8579

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

He was born in Longford, Derbyshire. Son of Elizabeth Penson of Simon Fields Farm West Hallam, Derbyshire. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting on 12th January 1903 He served in Hong Kong, from 8th March 1904 to 6th December 1904. He went to France on 24th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

Private Thomas Bull is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. James Church War Memorial, Idridgehay, Derbyshire. 

His brother Sergeant Harry Bull, 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War,