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he served as a seaman with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. At 1921 he was a clerk in
Barclay’s West Bromwich branch.

340 Walter Eric BULLEY (1914-2006) (inducted 31.5.1954; left about May 1963.) His original
occupation was Managing Director of Thos. Adshead & Sons Ltd, Angel Street, Dudley, with the
classification ‘Engineering - Mechanical Handling Equipment (Manufacturing)’. From January
1961 he took over as Managing Director of Metallisation Limited, Pear Tree Lane, Netherton
(from Bill Ballard, member #233, who retired after 37 years) and his classification changed to
‘Metal Spraying’. The following year he was appointed a director of the parent company Charles
Clifford Industries - which included various Metallisation subsidiaries and Hall Street Metal
Rolling Company - and in 1974 became chairman of the group. He was raised in the Fylde area
of west Lancashire and obtained a BA in Commerce (with distinction in Economics) from
Manchester University in 1939. He lived in turn at Pedmore, Hartlebury and Kidderminster.

341 Eric BUNN (1913-1998) (Inducted 30.8.1954; President 1963-64; made an Honorary Member in
1996 and remained so until his death.) Wool Industry - Woollen Goods
Distributing. Owner of James Bunn Limited of Furnace Road, Dudley,
wholesale fabrics merchant. Eric joined his father, the founder of the
business, and took over when his father died in 1960. As an Acting
Captain in the Royal Artillery he led a unit of men in the first phase of D-
Day landings on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944. After the War
he continued to serve as an officer with the local Army Cadet Force. He
was an active member of the Dudley & Sandwell Chamber of Commerce
and Dudley Conservative Club. His wife ‘Noni’ (Nora) always called him
Fred. She said she called all the men in her life Fred, just in case she talked in her sleep!

342 John (‘Jack’) Edward NEWEY (1896-1982) (Inducted 6.12.1954; left c.1959.) ‘Insurance General’.
Branch Manager of the Royal Insurance Company Ltd, Priory Street, Dudley despite never living
in the district. He lived from childhood in the Erdington area until moving to Sutton Coldfield in
1930. He spent two years with the Royal Flying Corps/RAF from 1917, but as a motor cyclist. He
served in France during the hostilities, where he was mentioned in despatches, and afterwards
in Germany. Before his military service he was described as an ‘estimator’ and soon after the
war he was a mechanical engineer at the Wolseley Motor Works, Ward End, Birmingham,
perhaps using skills he learned in the RAF. In his early insurance career he appears to have been
a claims inspector for fire and accident.

343 Oswald HENRY (1913?-1999?) (Inducted 6.12.1954; left Oct.1957.) ‘Youth
Employment Officer’. He was a senior officer of Dudley Council Education
Department, St James’s Road, Dudley from about 1954 to 1959. He received
some unwanted publicity in May 1959 when, leading a party of 15 schoolboys
on a holiday in France, he arrived at Dover having left all the passports and
travel documents in a Dudley hotel. They missed the intended ferry but
eventually crossed the Channel after the RAC and British Rail saved the day.
During his brief period in Dudley he lived in Coseley. He appears to have been a native of
Rhymney, South Wales, attended Monmouthshire teacher training college at Caerleon, then
taught at St John’s C E Senior School in Sparkhill, Birmingham from 1934 until at least 1939,
possibly then moving to teach in Coalville, Leicestershire. He must have returned to Rhymney
where he was Youth Employment Officer for some years prior to coming to Dudley. He is
believed to have died in the Portsmouth area.