William Bullock was born in Toxteth, Liverpool, on 6 October 1908, the son of Albert Edward Bullock, an engineer. He was educated at Liverpool Collegiate School before entering the University of Liverpool Medical School. He qualified in 1932 with first class honours and subsequently served in junior surgical posts at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester, the Royal Masonic Hospital, Guy's Hospital and the Royal South Hampshire Hospital. In 1935 he married Dr Kathleen Slaney, also a Liverpool graduate, who was the daughter of a prison medical officer in the Isle of Wight. At the outbreak of war he volunteered for military service and was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps. Initially he was posted to West Africa and later went to Burma with a division of West African troops. For much of the time he was in charge of an advanced dressing station near the Kaladan river close to the Indian frontier, and although most of the wounded were evacuated by air to base hospitals in India, there were many occasions when the intensity of fighting made air evacuation impossible or when the severity of the injury demanded immediate surgery. At a later stage in the war he was transferred to North West Europe and entered Belsen concentration camp with his field surgical team on the second day after its liberation. At that stage many of the dead inmates were still being buried but thousands more emaciated prisoners needed adequate clothing to protect them in the cold spring of 1945. He therefore commandeered a car which had belonged to a German general to bring back sheets, curtains and blankets which were made into clothes for the inmates. After the war he passed the FRCS examination and returned to the practice in Southampton which he shared with his wife. In addition to a busy professional life he served as an Independent Councillor in Southampton and was a member of Southampton Water Board. He retired from his practice in 1968 at the age of 60 in order to accompany his wife on visits to countries overseas in need of medical care but sadly his wife died a month after their retirement. He therefore went alone to Fiji and was allowed to take up the post of consultant surgeon in the Lau group of islands, based at the Lavuka Hospital on Overlau. Later he went to Suva to be external examiner in anatomy and surgery at the University of the South Pacific. On his return to England he married Sheila Crow in December 1970 and they lived at Martyr Worthy, near Winchester. His later years were devoted to growing carnations and chrysanthemums and to his other hobby of photography. He died on 29 April 1995, survived by his second wife Sheila and the two daughters of his first marriage, Jill and Eve, both physiotherapists.