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Thomas Victor BULLUSS

Regimental number2038
Place of birthCreswick, New South Wales
SchoolWarracknabeal State School, Victoria
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationShop assistant
AddressWarracknabeal, Victoria
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation35
Height5' 7.5"
Weight158 lbs
Next of kinWife, Mrs Maud Emily Bulluss, 6 The Avenue, East Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales
Previous military serviceServed in the Cadets.
Enlistment date10 April 1916
Place of enlistmentSydney, New South Wales
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name33rd Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/50/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A68 Anchises on 24 August 1916
Regimental number from Nominal Roll2038
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll33rd Battalion
FateKilled in Action 19 October 1917
Place of death or woundingPasschendaele, Ypres, Belgium
Age at death36
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsThe Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium

The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.

The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.

Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.

Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
121
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Thomas and Mary Jane BULLUSS; husband of Maud E. BULLUSS, 455 Riley Street, Surry Hills, New South Wales. Native of Creswick, Victoria
Family/military connectionsBrother-in-law: Lieutenant ALD HART, died of wounds, France, 21 September 1917.
Other details

War service: Western Front

Embarked Sydney, 24 August 1916; disembarked Devonport, England, 11 October 1916.

Peoceeded overseas to France, 21 November 1916.

Killed in action, Belgium, 19 October 1917.

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, BULLUSS Thomas Victor

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