Born at Buxton on the 15th of July 1828. He was most probably a son of William and Elizabeth (nee Dawson) Bullock, who were married at Buxton on the 9th of November 1826.
Enlisted at Prescot on the 7th of June 1846.
Age: 18.
Height: 5. 7".
Trade: Labourer.
Features: Fresh complexion. Hazel eyes. Dk. brown hair.
Next of kin: Wife, Ann Bullock, and was shown on the Regimental "Married roll" from the 2nd of December 1848.
Was batman to Paymaster John Stephenson from the 1st of April 1849 until embarking for the Crimea.
Transferred to the Military Train at Dublin on the 10th of February 1857.
His Regimental No. in the Military Train was 1311 and he served with the 6th Battalion.
The muster rolls show him as "serving in the Infantry Stables" from the 10th of April to the end of December 1859 and as "Hospital Orderly" from the 1st of January to the end of September 1860.
Discharged, "at his own request" and with right of registry for a pension of 4d. per day upon reaching the age of 50 years, from Woolwich on the 12th of November 1860.
Served 14 years 143 days. In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 10 months.
His conduct has been "good". In possession of three Good Conduct badges, with three entries in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Never tried by Court-martial.
Documents confirm that he is "also in possession of the Crimean medal with clasp for A.B.I. and S., and the Turkish Medal".
To live at No 3 Ordnance Road, Woolwich.
He re-enlisted into the 17th Lancers on the 30th of November 1860. Regimental No. 76.
His age was given as 32 years 6 months, and his former service of 14 years 143 days was allowed to reckon towards pension, vide War Office Authority, dated the 27th of May 1861. There is no mention on his documents of his former service in the Military Train.
Discharged from Dublin on the 19th of July 1870. "Free to pension, after 24 years service."
Served 24 years 25 days, to count. In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 10 months.
Conduct: "good". In possession of four Good Conduct badges
Was awarded a pension of 1/- per day. Pension letters to the 25th of April 1898.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal on the 5th of October 1867, with a gratuity of £5.
To live at No. 5 Walford Place, Leeds, after discharge, but he was living in Tunstall, Suffolk, on the 2nd of December 1868, in Edinburgh in 1873, and in Hull in 1875.
Convicted at Wolverhampton on the 6th of July 1887 of "being drunk and disorderly" and imprisoned for seven days. "To forfeit pension during period of imprisonment."
(There is a copy of the police court report taken from the "Wolverhampton Chronicle" for the 13th of July 1887 in the 17th Lancer file.)