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|Surname and forenames=Bulkeley Owen Richard John
|Army number=6213025
|Rank=Private
|Decorations=None yet known.
|Date of birth=1/7/1915 at Holyhead, Anglesey.  Mother's maiden surname Roberts.
|Age=76 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment 16/5/1940.  Posted to the 2nd Battalion Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment.  Served Iceland 15/10/1941 - 12/4/1942.  Attached G Branch T.E. 16/8/1943 - 31/8/1943 MT Stores RAOC.  Served Normandy 9/6/1944 - 14/12/1945.  Passed technical Storeman Trade Test and upgraded to Class II 26/11/1944.  Discharged as a Corporal 6/4/1946 on ceasing to fulfil Army physical requirements, as a result of having developed an ulcer.  Conduct rated very good.
|Company/Battery=Not yet confirmed.
|Platoon or other Sub-Unit= Gun No. 1 with 12 Platoon.
|Task or role=Machine Gunner 16/6/1940 - 12/10/1940.  Technical Storeman Class III 31/8/1940.  Gun No 1 21/8/1944.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet confirmed.
|Promotions=Lance Corporal 5/7/1944.  Corporal 2/8/1944.
|Wounded=No.
|Prisoner of War=No.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 4/3/1992 - death registered at Hereford.
|Home address=Working as shop assistant at the time of his enlistment.  Father John Bulkeley.  Married Edith Mary Cook Q3 1943 at Kington, Herefordshire.  Lived at 3, Duke Street, Kington, Herefordshire.
|Image Name=Bulkeley_Photo_from_Ancestry.jpg
|Image Title=Private Owen Richard John Bulkeley, 2nd Kensingtons.

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