Four: Stoker Petty Officer E. L. Bull, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (286447 Sto., H.M.S. Terrible) impressed naming; China 1900, no clasp (Sto., H.M.S. Terrible); British War Medal 1914-20 (S.P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (286447 Ldg. Sto., H.M.S. Blake) first two with contact marks and edge bruising, good fine; other good very fine (4) £340-380

Erwin Leigh Bull was born in Shanklin, Isle of Wight, on 17 April 1877. He entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 25 November 1897. Bull served on H.M.S. Terrible, December 1898-October 1902, and was advanced to Stoker in April 1899. He was promoted to Stoker 1st Class when on the Prince of Wales in July 1906 and to Leading Stoker on the same ship in October 1907. He attained the rank of Stoker Petty Officer in August 1910. During the Great War he served on the Spanker, July 1914-February 1915 and March 1915-September 1917. Stoker Petty Officer Bull was demobilised on 12 March 1919. With copied service papers.