[3] While he was footballer with Bury, he ran a pub in Sankey, Warrington.
[3] In August 1916, two years after the outbreak of the First World War, Bullen enlisted as a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery.
[6] He was killed at Vaulx-Vraucourt, France on 11 August 1917 and was reburied in Vraucourt Copse Cemetery in the late 1920s.
[2][7][8] At the time of his death, Bullen's wife was pregnant with their first child.
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