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Unit |
10th Light
Horse Regiment, A Squadron |
Rank |
Trooper |
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Date of Enlistment |
6 October 1914 |
Service no. |
152 |
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Date of Death |
7 August 1915 |
Place of Death |
The Nek - Walker's
Ridge |
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Age |
23 |
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Cemetery |
Walker's Ridge |
Details |
II. C. 4 |
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Epitaph |
His last
words Goodbye cobber God bless you |
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Next of Kin |
(Father)
RUSH Robert |
Address |
Bradfield
St George, Bury St, Edmund's, England |
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Parents |
Robert
and Amy Rush |
Address |
Bradfield
St George, Bury St, Edmund's, England |
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Date of Birth |
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Place of birth |
England,
Witnesham, Ipswich |
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General |
“The word spread along the
line. Trooper Harold Rush, a young farmhand, realising he was
likely to die in the next few moments, turned to his mate beside him and
said: ‘Goodbye cobber. God bless you’. Later, when his grieving
parents were told this they arranged for his last words to be inscribed
on his headstone, which today lies in the cemetery on Walker’s Ridge.
The Nek,
Peter Burness, page 113 (Source 5) |
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