Lieutenant Andrew Bulman

Lieutenant Andrew Bulman, 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in action at Gallipoli on 12th July 1915 during the ” Charge ” on the Turkish trenches at Achi Baba Nullah, aged 25. He was the son of Andrew and M.H.R. Bulman of Pringle Bank, Kelso and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey. He had been educated at Kelso High School and whilst there had been a keen member of the Pipe Band. He was also an enthusiastic rugby player and was secretary of the local club which he helped to get promoted into the Senior ranks of the game. That fateful day became known as the “Black Day of the Borders” as only 70 unwounded men answered evening roll call out of the over 700 Officers and Other Ranks who had begun the attack. Out of the Battalion’s twenty Officers twelve had been killed and six wounded. The author’s Great Uncle Corporal Jim Murray was wounded and spent six weeks in hospital in Alexandria before returning to Gallipoli or ” the Pen” as he called it. The contemporary photograph shows Achi Baba marked with a cross. This “hill” dominated the battlefield and was never captured. The second photo shows the Borderers going over the top at Gallipoli and the third shows the Battlefield in 1922.