The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private R F G Bush

Photograph by "Pearlady"

Private Reginald Frank Gordon BUSH, G/2877, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, 73rd Field Ambulance, Flanders France, 5th May 1916.

1895 June Quarter, Alderbury, Wiltshire, marriage of Frank Bush & Kate Mary Harris.

13th June 1896, born St Edmunds, Salisbury, Wiltshire, son of Frank & Kate Mary Bush, 63 Green Croft Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire.

26th July 1896, St Edmunds, Salisbury, baptism of Reginald Frank Gordon Bush, son of Frank Bush & Kate Mary Bush.

1910 December Quarter, Salisbury, marriage of Frank Bush and Emma Bungay.

1911 Census - 6 Squires Court, Green Croft Street, Salisbury - Frank Bush, head, age 43, married under 1 year, coal sack maker, weaver hemp & jute manufacturer, born Salisbury; Emma Bush, wife, age 35, married under 1 year, born Salisbury; Reginald Frank Gordon Bush, son, age 14, born Salisbury; Alfred James Bungay, age 9, stepson, school, born Salisbury; Elsie May Bush, daughter, age 9, school, born Salisbury.

Enlisted Bournemouth, Hampshire, age 19, height 5ft 3¾ inches, weight 110lbs, fresh complexion, blue eyes, dark brown hair. Resided Salisbury, Wiltshire. Formerly butcher.

Home, 12th September 1914 to 29th August 1915; BEF France 30th August 1915 to 29th September 1915; Home, 30th September 1915 to 11th December 1915; BEF France 12th December 1915 to 5th May 1916.

12th September 1914, enlisted; 13th September 1914, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 13th September 1914, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th May 1915, Shoreham, improper conduct on 8.30pm Parade, 4 days confined to Barracks; 28th September 1915, wounded gun shot wound left leg; 16th November 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd December 1915, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th December 1915, embarked; 12th December 1915, posted BEF & 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th December 1915, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal.

26th July 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Frank Bush, 64 Burnthwaite Road, Walham Green, Fulham; Mother, Emma Bush, 64 Burnthwaite Road, Walham Green, Fulham; Brother - (full blood), William George Bush, age 16, Tower House, Coombe Road, Salisbury; Brothers (half blood) - Frank Bungay, age 23, Lamberk Sheering, Harlow, Essex; Albert George Leonard, age 7, 64 Burnthwaite Road, Walham Green, Fulham; James Bungay, age 17, 64 Burnthwaite Road, Walham Green, Fulham; Sisters (full blood) - Mabel Elizabeth Kate Bush, age 21, Sound? Institute, ?????, ?????; Elsie May Bush, age 14, Tottenham House, Savernake Forest, Marlborough, Wiltshire.

Buried at Dranoutre Military Cemetery, I.D.23., Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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