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Major Frederick Rivers BULKELEY
1/4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry attached to the Royal Field Artillery Remount Service Date of birth: 9th April 1883 Date of death: 27th October 1964 Died aged 81 Unknown
Frederick Rivers Bulkeley was born at Oak Cottage, Whitchurch in Shropshire on the 9th of April 1883 the son of Colonel Charles Rivers Bulkely CB, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and Constance Clementine (nee Davenport) Bulkeley of Clewer Lodge, Windsor in Berkshire. He was educated at Hazelwood School until July 1895 when he went on to Eton College where he was in the Reverend H. Daman's house, leaving in 1898. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry (Militia) on the 10th of April 1900. He was appointed as an Instructor of Musketry on the 22nd of April 1905 and resigned his commission on the 23rd of June 1906, retiring to the Reserve of Officers with the rank of Lieutenant. Following the outbreak of war he was mobilised as a Lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on the 10th of October 1914. He transferred to the Remount Service with the rank of Captain and as an Adjutant in a Remount Depot on the 15th of February 1915 and embarked for France on the same day. He was promoted to Captain on the 25th of November 1915. He was promoted to Acting Major on the 1st of January 1918, while in command of a Remount Squadron overseas, and proceeded on leave from Boulogne on the 8th of January 1918. He relinquished the rank of Acting Major on the 3rd of June 1918 on ceasing to command the squadron. On the 8th of June 1918 he was appointed as officer in charge of horse lines for 150th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He was posted to 231st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery on the 20th of October 1918. He was demobilised at No. 1 Dispersal Unit, Clipstone on the 27th of January 1919 and resigned his commission on the 5th of August 1922, retaining the rank of Captain. He was appointed as District Remount Officer in the Reserve of Officers on the 26th of April 1919. He was married in 1908 to Elizabeth Muriel (nee Lyon); they had a son Thomas "Tommy" Foster, born on the 15th of March 1916; they lived at Tilston Lodge, Malpas in Cheshire and later at 76, Bloxham Road, Banbury in Oxfordshire. After the war he was a partner in the firm of H.G. Duncalfe & Co, land agents, surveyors and mining engineers, of 20 Darlington Street, Wolverhampton. The partnership was dissolved on the 22nd of August 1927. During the Second World War he served as an ARP Warden at Knightsbridge. He died at Horton General Hospital, Banbury following a sudden illness. His brothers, Captain Thomas Henry Rivers Bulkeley 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, was killed in action on the 22nd of October 1914 and Captain Charles Ivor Rivers Bulkeley Scots Guards, was killed in action on the 16th of May 1915.

Went on to Eton College