Private 19621 Robert Henry RUSH

Private 19621 Robert Henry Rush{gallery}Pte R H Rush{/gallery}1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Formerly Pte 11315 Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
Killed in action in France and Flanders, 25th September 1915, aged 29

• Commemorated: Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 53
  
• Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
  
• Son of George and Larah Rush of Grassmoor, Chesterfield
• NNWFHS Memorial: Bedworth
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Rush
• NNWFHS Bedworth War Memorial Page
• Ypres Menin Gate Memorial
• Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s Regiment)

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born c1886 at Grassmoor
  
• Lived as a boarder at 21 Recreation Terrace, Dinnington, Rotherham
  
• Employed as a coal miner / hewer