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Captain James Charles Critchell Bullock was born at 81 East Street, Chichester, England on September 6, 1898. He was educated at Cliff House Preparatory School in Southbourne, went to Sherborne School (Dorset) and later attended the Royal Military College, from where he joined the 18th Bengal Lancers in 1916 as a subaltern officer. During the First World War, he served in the Fifth Cavalry Division in France and Belgium and in the Desert Mounted Corps in Palestine and Syria. Bullock was the official cinematographer for General Allenby's arrival in Aleppo. He was an athletic man of 6 feet, 2 inches who not only won boxing competitions at Sherborne School, but later also boxed for the Cavalry Corps. Hunting and photo expeditions led him along the upper Nile and to Kurdistan. After two years in hospital with injuries and various tropical diseases, he was decommissioned in 1923 and later that year "in search of health" went to Canada, where he met John Hornby with whom he undertook an expedition into and across Canada’s Barren Lands.