South Yorkshire Times, April 3rd, 1953

Telegram Brought Sad Message to Goldthorpe

A telegram bearing sad news for Mrs. S. Tulk, 1, George Street, Highgate, Goldthorpe, arrived at her home on Wednesday, where she was hopefully awaiting news of her husband’s return from Singapore. The telegram told her that Lieut. S. S. Tulk had been killed on the previous Friday in a jeep accident.

The next day he was to have flown home to England. In his last letter he had written :

“I’ll let you know when I hear the date of my coming home”—but that was his last letter, and because of the wait, Mrs. Tulk had assumed that he was on his way.

Married 22 years, Mr. and Mrs. Tulk met in Wiltshire, the district of which Lieut. Tulk was a native. Lieut. Tulk spent almost the whole of his life in the Forces, coming out shortly after the last war for a short spell, then signing on again a little later.

Mrs. Tulk is a native of High gate, and although she and her husband have lived in the Wiltshire district for most of their married life, she has been staying at Highgate with her mother since her husband went overseas more than two years ago.

A memorial service was held at GoIdthorpe Parish Church on Sunday.