BULL, William (Harry)

Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, Gosport Hampshire UK

Credit: Unknown

Lieutenant

HMS Cambrian

Royal Navy

Harry was born on the 30th of May 1881 in Newport to Thomas Edmund & Kate Amelia (nee PRAGNELL) BULL. In 1891 the family were living at Kingsfield Terrace, Fairlee Road in Newport. In 1925 at All Saints Church in Ryde he married Rena Doris CAWS who was living at Chine House in Brook around the time of Harry's death.

Harry was serving aboard the 1939 armed trawler HMS Cambrian which had been converted by the Royal Navy to serve as a boarding vessel. She struck a mine & sank on the 30th of May 1940. Original RN Casualty Reports reported Harry as 'missing lost at sea', but some days later his body was recovered from the sea & he was buried at the Royal Naval Cemetery Haslar in Gosport.

Harry rests beneath a Commission Headstone in Section G Row 8 Grave 20.

Harry is also remembered on the Wootton War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.