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Terence Malcolm Bulloch

Coastal Command pilot with DSO and Bar and DFC and Bar

Publication status

Published with qualification

Relationship not established

Identity and service

What the opened records establish

Four Gazette notices document his DFC, Bar to the DFC, DSO and Bar to the DSO with Nos. 206 and 120 Squadrons. RAF educational and museum records describe his anti-submarine patrols and record 350 operational missions, 4,568 flying hours and three U-boats sunk.

Life dates
1916–2014
Service
Royal Air Force · Coastal Command
Rank or role
Squadron Leader
Record period
RAF from 1936; wartime awards 1940–1943
Service number
39373
Evidence confidence
Qualified

Units and formations

  • • No. 206 Squadron
  • • No. 120 Squadron

Decorations and distinctions

  • • Distinguished Service Order and Bar
  • • Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar

Name forms in the record

  • • Terence Malcolm Bulloch
  • • Terence Malcolm ‘Terry’ Bulloch
  • • T. M. Bulloch

Service chronology

Dated milestones linked to their evidence

  1. verified01

    Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross

    Flying Officer Terence Malcolm Bulloch, service number 39373, No. 206 Squadron, appears in the DFC awards.

    The London Gazette
  2. verified02

    Awarded a Bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross

    Squadron Leader Terence Malcolm Bulloch, DFC, service number 39373, No. 120 Squadron, received a Bar to the DFC.

    The London Gazette
  3. verified03

    Appointed to the Distinguished Service Order

    The citation records successful anti-submarine sorties in bad weather and his inspiring example.

    The London Gazette
  4. verified04

    Awarded a Bar to the Distinguished Service Order

    The notice describes a December 1942 convoy escort during which eight submarines were sighted, one was almost certainly destroyed and six were prevented from attacking the convoy during approximately sixteen hours’ flying.

    The London GazetteRoyal Air Force Museum

Archival references

Identifiers and source register

Secondary contextInternet Archive capture 20241203053206

Squadron Leader Terry Bulloch obituary

The Telegraph · Internet Archive · accessed 2026-07-20

Archived HTTPS snapshot used because the live article returns HTTP 402 to anonymous deterministic checks. The capture preserves the complete named obituary and remains secondary context.

The Telegraph · Internet Archive · Squadron Leader Terry Bulloch obituary

Claims not carried into this dossier

  • Documentary connector to Richard’s Bulloch branch
  • Whether service number 30373 on the January 1943 extracted page is an OCR error or printed typo
  • Family-site U-boat totals above the RAF institutional total of three

Publication and rights boundaries

Claim boundary: The service record is independently supported, but no relationship to Richard’s documented Bulloch branch is established. Three notices support service number 39373; the January 1943 extraction displays 30373 and remains annotated as an anomaly.

Rights boundary: RAF Museum catalogue descriptions may be cited, but object images require their own reuse permission or licence.

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