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English footballer
Joseph Bulcock (April 1879 – 20 April 1918) was an English professional footballer, best remembered for his five years as a right back in the Southern League with Crystal Palace, for whom he made over 140 appearances.[4][5] Earlier in his career, he played in the Football League for Bury and for a number of non-League clubs.[1][6][7][8] He represented the Southern League XI and the Football Association XI.[9][10][11]
Bulcock was the youngest of three brothers.[9] After professional football was suspended at the end of the 1914–15 season due to the ongoing First World War, he lived in Llanelli and worked as a plumber's mate.[12] Bulcock enlisted as a private in the Welch Regiment in December 1915 and was sent to the Western Front in September 1917.[12] He was wounded at the Fourth Battle of Ypres and died of wounds to the head at 36th Casualty Clearing Station in Watten, France on 20 April 1918.[3][13][9] Bulcock was buried in Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military Cemetery, Belgium.[2]
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