Second Lieutenant John Legge BULMER (1913)

4th Battalion, attached to 5th (Service) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Born 18 September 1894 in Yorkshire
Missing, presumed killed in action, 3 May 1917, aged 22
Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France.

John Bulmer was the third son of Revd Edward Philips Bulmer and Elizabeth, née North, of 1 Brooklands, Filey, North Yorkshire. He had four brothers and a sister.

He was educated at Marlborough College where he was head boy in 1913, and knew TS Eliot while at Merton.

He volunteered for service in October 1915, and went to France the following March. Wounded on 6 September 1916, he was sent home; he rejoined his regiment in January 1917.

He was posted as missing, presumed killed in action, during an attack near Cherisy on 3 May 1917.