Name
Cecil Henry Gosset Lushington
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/07/1916
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Worcestershire Regiment
“A” Company, 10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 5 A and 6 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath War Memorial, St Mary the Virgin and All Saints Churchyard, Boxley, Kent Plaque in St Mary the Virgin and All Saints, Boxley, Kent, Brass Plaque in St. Marys Church Bampton, Oxfordshire.
Pre War
Born on 16 Dec 1884 in Peshawar, Bengal, India son of Maj. Arthur James and Constance Caroline (Hutchinson) Lushington of The Park, Sandling, Maidstone, Kent.
Educated at Haileybury College 1898-1902.
The family lived at Bampton Manor.
He married Evelyn Marian Hirst in 1915 in Witney, Oxfordshire.
Wartime Service
Killed in action at La Boisselle during the Battle of the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
