BORN CARLETON RODE, NORFOLK 1884. BAPTISED ON 23 MARCH 1884, DUNSTON, NORFOLK. SECOND SON OF GEORGE BUSH (1857-1927) & ELIZABETH ESTHER REBECCA BUSH (1857-1947), OF BETH’S FARM, DUNSTON, NORFOLK. SON OF AN AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS.
HE MOVED TO HULL AND WAS POSSIBLY LIVING WITH HIS BROTHER, IN THE HULL/BEVERLEY AREA (NO CENSUS ADDRESS FOUND?)
ACCORDING TO “SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS WW1“, HE ENLISTED AT CENTRAL HULL AND JOINED AS PRIVATE, 9/21234, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT.
HE TRANSFERRED TO THE 64TH MACHINE GUN CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION ON 26/09/1916, AGED 32.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, GEORGE. HE LEFT A DEPENDENT MOTHER, ELIZABETH ESTHER REBECCA BUSH, C/O MRS QUANTRILL, HAIGHAM ROAD, ATTLEBOROUGH, NORFOLK.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE.
