HE LOVED DUTY
AND HE FEARED NOT DEATH

CAPTAIN BRYAN DOLPHIN PAULL

ROYAL IRISH RIFLES ATTD EAST SURREY REGIMENT

30TH SEPTEMBER 1916 AGE 19

BURIED: BLIGHTY VALLEY CEMETERY, AUTHUILLE WOOD, FRANCE


Bryan Paull left school, Charterhouse, in 1914 and enlisted immediately. He was gazetted Lieutenant in February 1915 and promoted Captain two months later. He was just 18 and one month, surely one of the youngest Captains of the war. He was 19 and 9 months when he was killed leading an attack on the German trenches in September 1916. His promotion indicates that he was a natural leader; his inscription, confirmed by his mother, that he was a brave and serious minded boy.