FEARS FOR SAFETY OF “FLYING BISHOP”
SMOULDERING HEAP MAY BE WRECKED PLANE
(Received December 9, 6.30 p.m.)
KHARTOUM, December 8. It is feared that the “Flying Bishop,” the Rt. Rev. Herbert Bullen, Assistant Bishop in Egypt and the Sudan, with his wife has perished on the way to Malakal to Juba in a Royal Air Force plane piloted by Flying Officer F. W. Richmond. A smouldering heap halfway to Juba is believed to be the wreckage of the aeroplane. There is slender hope that the occupants descended by parachute to safety. A later message states that Mrs Bullen did not perish; she remained at Malakal.
Herbert Guy Bullen was bom in Essex in 1896 and was educated at Forest School, Queen’s College, Cambridge, and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He served in the Great War from 1915 till 1918 and was awarded the Military Cross. In 1929 he was appointed secretary of the Northern Nigeria Mission and had been Assistant Bishop in Egypt and the Sudan since 1935.
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Southland Times, Issue 23379, 10 December 1937, Page 5
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