Terence Malcolm Bulloch

Terence Malcolm ‘Terry’ Bulloch was born on 19 February 1916 at Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and joined the Royal Air Force in 1936. During the Second World War he flew with Coastal Command, joining No. 120 Squadron from its re-formation in 1941 — the first squadron in the command to operate the Very Long Range Consolidated Liberator, the aircraft that finally closed the mid-Atlantic ‘air gap’ beyond the reach of shorter-ranged patrols.

Flying long anti-submarine patrols over the Atlantic from bases in Northern Ireland and a detachment in Iceland, Bulloch became the most successful anti-U-boat pilot of the Battle of the Atlantic, sinking or sharing in the destruction of several enemy submarines and damaging others. His decorations included the Distinguished Service Order and Bar and the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar. His record was recognised long afterwards when a Royal Air Force Poseidon maritime-patrol aircraft was named in his honour. He died on 13 November 2014, aged 98.