Military Cross GVR; Most Excellent Order of the British Empire O.B.E. (Military); Queens South Africa Medal clasps Cape Colony; Orange Free State; Transvaal (1781 L/Cpl. J.J. BULMAN. R.E.); Kings South Africa Medal clasps South Africa 1901 & 1902 (1781 2ND.CORPL. J. BULMAN. R.E.); 1914 Star with 5 Aug-22 Nov 1914 clasp (1781 C.S.MJR. INSTR. J. BULMAN. R.E.); British War Medal (CAPT. J.J. BULMAN.); Victory Medal with M.I.D. Oakleaf (CAPT. J.J. BULMAN.)
Captain John James Bulman Royal Engineers Born 1880 lived Croyde Devon, MC awarded 1915 as a Warrant Officer, He was MID x3 in 1915, 1917 and 1918
John James Bulman attested for the Royal Engineers and served in South Africa during the Boer War with the Telegraph Battalion. He was later selected for appointment to the Sudan Government Telegraphs in Khartoum under Colonel E. V. Turner, and rapidly gained promotion to the rank of Inspector, returning home in 1910.
Advanced Company Sergeant Major, Bulman served with the 3rd Light Railway Signal Company, Royal Engineers, during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 August 1914, and was Mentioned in Field Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 January 1915 (London Gazette 17 February 1915). Awarded a scarce Warrant Officer’s Military Cross, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 18 April 1915, and was promoted Lieutenant on 26 June 1915, and Captain on 11 June 1916. Twice further Mentioned by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in his Despatches of 7 November 1917 and 8 November 1918 (London Gazettes 14 December 1917 and 23 December 1918), for his services during the Great War he was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year’s Honours’ List. Post-War he served as Captain and Adjutant of the 54th East Anglian Divisional Signals (Territorial Army), and died in Devon on 16 June 1925.
