1896 - 1917 (20 years)
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Name |
Arthur Harrison Bushby |
Birth |
08 Oct 1896 |
Glebe, Australia |
Gender |
Male |
Military Service |
Arthur Harrison BUSHBY
Regimental number: 6236
Date of birth: 8 October 1896
Place of birth: Glebe, New South Wales
School: Marrickville West Superior Public School, New South Wales
Religion: Methodist
Occupation: Dye maker
Address: Carlyle, Hill Street, Marrickville, New South Wales
Marital status: Single
Age at embarkation: 19
Next of kin: Father, H Bushby, Carlyle, Hill Street, Marrickville, New South Wales
Previous military service: Served in the Compulsory Military Training scheme, Sydney, New South Wales.
Enlistment date: 17 March 1916
Rank on enlistment: Private
Unit name: 3rd Battalion, 20th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number: 23/20/3
Embarkation details: Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on 9 September 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll: Private
Unit from Nominal Roll: 3rd Battalion
Fate: Killed in Action 20 September 1917
Miscellaneous details (Nominal Roll): Lewis gunner at the time of his death
Place of death or wounding: NE of Ypres, Belgium
Age at death: 20
Age at death from cemetery records: 20
Place of burial:No known grave
Commemoration details: The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.
The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.
Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial 35
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records Parents: Harrison and Mary BUSHBY, 'Carlisle', Hill Street, Marrickville, New South Wales. Native of Sydney
Family/military connections Cousins: 11 Corporal Francis Anthony ANGELINETTA 36th Bn, killed in action, 22 January 1917; Pte R. BRADY [cannot be further identified]; 4162 Pte Harold Sydney BUSHBY, 11th Bn, killed in action, Messines Ridge, Belgium, 26 January 1918.
Other details:
War service: Western Front
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal.
http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=41098
See also Commonwealth War Graves Commission website:
http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=1598067 |
Death |
20 Sep 1917 |
North East of Ypres, Belgium |
Burial |
No Known Grave |
Person ID |
I513983578 |
Walsh - Wilson Family Tree |
Last Modified |
18 Mar 2009 |
Father |
Harrison Bushby, b. 1ST QTR 1871, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria d. 1953, Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia (Age 82 years) |
Mother |
Mary Elizabeth Blanche Brady, b. Abt 1875 d. 1956, Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia (Age ~ 81 years) |
Marriage |
1895 |
Glebe, N.S.W., Australia |
Family ID |
F513881751 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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