Name
(James) William James Bush
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
8186
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
XVII. C. 13.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
The Soldiers Died i the Great War records James' as born in Bishop' Stortford and living and enlisting there.
William James Bush (known as James) was born in 1886 in Farnham, Essex (Bishop's Stortford registration district) to James & Charlotte Bush.
On the 1901 Census he was living with his family at Hazel End, Farnham, Essex. On the 1911 Census he was listed as a Private in the Bedfordshire Regiment in Barracks.
Wartime Service
As a serving soldier it is likely he would have been one of the first to be sent to France, arriving on 16 August 1914 and would have seen action in many major battles including the Battle of Mons, 2nd Battle of Ypres and the Battle of the Somme.
He was killed in action on 8 October 1917.
Additional Information
A war gratuity of £21 10s was granted to his father as well as pay owing of £20 12s 8d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
