240068 Cpl Walter Bulloch, 5/6th Cameronians

240068 Corporal Walter Bulloch of the 5/6th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), was killed in action on the 21st May 1917. He was one of 440 British Army officers and men to die on this date.

Walter was born in Dalziell, Lanarkshire and enlisted at Motherwell. His medal index card indicates that he was serving with the 6th Battalion, Scottish Rifles, and that his original number was 1328. This in turn dates his enlistment to around February 9th 1911, give or take a day or so. He arrived in France - as a lance-corporal - on the 20th March 1915 and had therefore been on active service for over two years at the time of his death.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that Walter was 24 years old, the son of William and Catherine Bulloch of 42 Quarry Street, Knowetop, Motherwell, Lanarkshire. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. The 5/6th Battalion was created in May 1916 when the 1/5th and the 1/6th Battalions merged.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission