Jack Maurice Bulman was born in Folkestone on 8 September 1910. He attended the Duke of York's Royal Military School from 1921 to 1929, going straight into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) as a soldier in August 1929.

He served in the UK until 1933, then India and Burma until 1939. Bulman was in France from 27 September 1939 until 14 March 1940. He was selected for officer training and discharged at the rank of Warrant Officer; and in the same month (July 1940) received an Emergency Commission into the King's Royal Rifle Corps. The SOE recruited him whilst he was serving in the Middle East, and he was trained in Palestine and was involved in SOE operations in Albania (1943-1944), before being posted to the SOE India in October 1944. 

Bulman parachuted into northern Burma on 27 January 1945 as part of SOE's Operation Dilwyn in Kachinland. In fact, the SOE mission in Kachinland was Force 136's longest running operation in Burma; having a continuous presence in the field from February 1943 until September 1945. For almost the entirety of this time, the personnel of Dilwyn were behind tenemy lines. Apart from the Japanese, Burmese collaborators and the jungle; the SOE faced considerable liaison and co-ordination difficulties with their Allies, i.e. the Americans the Chinese. The American Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency) also operated in northern Burma with the Kachins, which caused some friction with Force 136 as they competed for recruits to act as levies. The Chinese also made several attempts to gain territory and redraw borders, as well as stripping Kachin villages bare as their soldiers lived off the land. All in all, not a permissive operational environment for Bulman and his fellow SOE officers.

Bulman is recorded on his SOE record as the second in command of a Force 136 section responsible for intelligence collection and raising local forces. Apart from providing much useful intelligence Operation Dilwyn teams also helped to recover downed US pilots flying 'The Hump', the risky aerial resupply operation that supported other specialist units operating in Japanese-held territory, such as the Chindits. The Dilwyn teams were highly successful in coordinating their own air drops, recruiting local Kachin levies and moving large quantities of stores up into the hills. Operation Dilwyn operations did assist the American and Chinese advance on Lashio and Hsipaw in 1945 by attacking the Japanese lines of communication south of these towns. So, some interagency co-operation did eventually bear fruit.

The Force 136 Dilwyn parties were eventually extracted back to India by 1 June 1945. On 7 November 1946 Jack Bulman was Mentioned in Despatches for his actions on Operation Dilwyn.

Details of Bulman's life after wartime service have been hard to come by. Jack Maurice Bulman died in 1982 in Exeter, Devon.

His Personnel File can be found at the National Archives under this reference: HS 9/235/1