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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 205

Four: Captain G. Bullen, Royal West Kent Regiment and Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps, Late London Regiment
1914-15 Star (1977 Pte. G. Bullen. 28-Lon'd.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt G. Bullen); Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., with 'Ceylon' scroll suspension, and additional service Bar (Rfn. G. Bullen. C.P.R.C), very fine, mounted court style for display purposes (4)

E.M. Ceylon Government Gazette 22.6.1934 3240 Rifleman G. Bullen, Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps

E.M. Second Award Bar Ceylon Government Gazette 27.8.1937 Acting Sergeant G. Bullen, Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps

Captain Geoffrey Bullen, born Cambridge; enlisted in the 28th (Artists Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment, 1.9.1914, and served with the Regiment on the Western Front from 29.12.1914; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal West Kent Regiment, 15.5.1915, and served with the 1st Battalion; received a gunshot wound to the shoulder in the disastrous attack on 'Wood Lane' (High Wood), 22.7.1916, on which occasion the Royal West Kents suffered 400 Officers and Men killed or wounded; retired with the rank of Captain, and emigrated to Ceylon, where he was employed as a rubber planter.

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