Staff Sergeant Charles Bullock

Charles Bullock enlisted into The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) before transferring to the Army Physical Training Corps (APTC).

He volunteered for airborne forces and qualified as a military parachutist, as part of a cadre of ten Sgt Instructors from the APTC, on course 42, which ran at RAF Ringway in December 1943. The course report state: Airborne Division APTC S/I Bullock: ‘Confident and Competent’

S/I Bullock was then posted to HQ Coy, of 156 Parachute Battalion, which had just returned from Italy to prepare for the liberation of Europe.

Staff Sergeant Bullock parachuted onto Drop Zone Y at Ginkle Heath, near Arnhem, under enemy fire on 18 September 1944. He was later captured and held as a prisoner of war.