"FLYING BISHOP" KILLED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 66, 10 December 1937, Page 4

"FLYING BISHOP" KILLED

Plane Crash in Sudan (Received 10, 8.45 a.w.) LONDON, Dec. 9. Fehrs expressed in a messa^e from Khartoum tliat the "Elyina Bishop,"

the Kt. Rev. Herbert Bullen, assistantBishop in' Egypt and the Sudan, perished en route from Malakal to Juba in a Royal Air Force inachine piloted by Flying-Officer F. W. Richmond are confirmed by a cablegram rieceived by the Uhurch ^Missionary Society. A smouldering heap which was found midway to Juba is believed to be the wreckage of the aeroplane, There was previously thought to be a slender hope that the occupants had parachuted to safety. Mrs. Bullen, who at first was also believed to hgve perished, remained at Malakal. The Rt. Rev. Herbert Guy Bullen, M.O., M.A., whs born in Essex in 1896. He married in 1928 Miss Ella Mabel Oswaid, M.R.C.S., and had one daughter. He was educated at Forest School, at Queen's College, Cambridge, and at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He was an assistant manager at Rossall Preparatory School in 1914, and served iu the European War from 1916 to 1918 in the Fifth South Lancashire ltegiment, winning the M.C. He was at Camhridge from 1919 to 1924, became a priest in 1925? and was assistant-curate at Holy Trinity, Marylebone, jn 1924-^6. From 1926 to 1929 he was a Church Missioaary Society worker in Nigeria, and jn 1929-35 was secretary of the Nigeriun Mission. In 1935 he became assistantbishop in Egypt and the Sudan.