Private Joe Alfred Bullas
Army Number : 14657
Battalion : 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
He was born at Mossborough, Yorkshire. Son of John W. Bullas and Sarah Mallender (formerly Bullas), of 156, Model Village, Creswell, Derbyshire. He was a colliery pony driver prior to enlisting at Creswell. He went to France 29th August 1915 and was killed in action, 6th August 1917, aged 21, by German shellfire, whilst employed on railway maintenance near Ypres.
Buried : Voormezeele Enclosures No.1 and No.2, Belgium. Plot 1. Row F. Grave 9.
Private Joe Alfred Bullas is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Mansfield District Council Offices Roll of Honour, Civic Centre, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Creswell War Memorial, Creswell, Derbyshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.