Forename: Claude Granville
Surname: Bullingham
Rank: Private
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Institution: St Paul’s Practising School
Claude Granville Bullingham was born in 1896 to Edwin and Fanny Bullingham of 40 Granville Street.
He joined the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in September 1914 and went to fight on the front line in March 1915. He was killed by a shell after having just taken a village from German control near the Hindenburg Line on 5 April 1917. He was 21 years old. Claude is buried in Unicorn Cemetery at Vendhuile where his grave is marked by a cross. He died on the same day and at the same location as fellow Practising School pupil William Jennings.