Thomas Edward Bulch (30 December 1862 – 13 November 1930) was an English-born Australian musician and composer.

Both his father and uncles were bandsmen in local bands and it was not long before Thomas started to learn music.

He showed a great aptitude for music in his early years and it was at the age of 12 that he joined a junior band formed by his uncle Mr. Dinsdale.

Youngest son, Corporal John (Jack) Bulch served in France in the 22nd Battalion but returned to Australia in 1919 aboard the Chemnitz transport ship.

Elder son Sergeant Thomas Edward Bulch Junior (Service number 1149) served in Alexandria, Gallipoli and was then killed in France in 1916.

Apart from his need for income to support his family he had a great love for composing and spent much of his time at the piano working on his music.

Some of the better – known names he used are Godfrey Parker, Henri Laski,[9] Pat Cooney and Eugene Lecosta.

He also created arrangements for brass and military bands of the works of other composers; some from opera and the classics such as Meyerbeer, Weber and Rossini; others from the works of popular contemporary composers of his day such as Carl Volti (a pseudonym for Glaswegian violinist Archibald Milligan) and Charles le Thiere (a pseudonym for London-based composer and conductor Thomas Wilby Tomkins) occasionally leading to the names of such to be occasionally mistakenly conflated with that of Bulch himself.

The composition “Craigielee” composed by Thomas using the name Godfrey Parker is said to have a connection with the music of “Waltzing Matilda”.

Thomas had made a practice of writing and dedicating music to all the female members of the family.