Corporal Bullis was a medic with the Medical Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while tending his wounded comrades in North Korea on December 1, 1950 and died while a prisoner on March 31, 1951. His remains have been recovered and identified. The remains of CPL Bullis are interred at a private cemetery in Pontiac, MI. His name is permanently inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, HI.