Thank you to Bernice Forsyth and Mary Day from Capel Local History Group for allowing Dorking Museum to publish their research. Thank you to Lenka Cathersides for additional details.
John was born in Capel in 1897, second son of John Henry and Sarah Catherine Pullen (nee Knights). The couple married on 2nd November 1886 at St Stephen’s in Walworth. The couple then lived at Arnolds Cottages in Beare Green, Capel.The family was living in Beare Green.
John enlisted at Dorking into the 2nd/4th Battalion of the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment.
The 2nd/4th was evacuated on 19th December 1915 from Gallipoli to Egypt where they guarded the Suez Canal until January 1917. The Division then went on to fight in the Palestine Campaign. In 1917 they took part in the First Battle of Gaza, the Second Battle of Gaza, the Third Battle of Gaza and the Capture of Beersheba. Here John was buried at Beersheba War Cemetary. The Battalion reached Jerusalem on the 9th of December 1917.
John was killed in action on 3rd November, 1917 aged 20 years. He is buried in the Beersheba War Cemetery in Israel.
| Born | Capel, Surrey | |
| Lived | Holmwood, Surrey | |
| Son of | John and Sarah Pullen | |
| Brother of | William John Pullen | |
| Enlisted | Guildford | |
| Regiment | 2/4th Battalion, Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment | |
| Number | T/206593 | |
| Date of Death | 3rd November 1917 | |
| Place of Death | Beersheba, Israel | |
| Cause of Death | Killed in Action | |
| Age | 20 | |
| Cemetery | Beersheba War Cemetery, Israel |
