HUSH, Austin Septimus
| Service Number: | 2637 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 July 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Marlowe, New South Wales, Australia, 24 May 1893 |
| Home Town: | Leichhardt, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Porter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 23 July 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Braidwood Public School Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Leichhardt War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2637, 19th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 2 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 2637, 19th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 2637, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 14 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 4th Infantry Battalion, At Tel-el-Kebir | |
| 23 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 2637, 4th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2637 awm_unit: 4th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-23 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Joseph John Hush and Mary A. Hush of Leichhardt Street, Leichhardt, NSW. Brother of Peter Douglas Hush who returned to Australia on 16 May 1919 having served with the 45th Battalion
Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Joseph John Hush and Mary A. Hush of Leichhardt Street, Leichhardt, NSW. Brother of Peter Douglas Hush who returned to Australia on 16 May 1919 having served with the 45th Battalion
Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Austin HUSH (Service Number 2637) was born on 21st May 1893 at Braidwood. He commenced working for the NSW Government Railways as a temporary junior porter in the Sydney District on 25th July 1913. He became permanent the next January and a ‘Porter’ on his 21st birthday.
On 5th August 1915 he was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces, which he did the next day at Liverpool. He named his father as his next of kin. He left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Euripides’ on 2nd November 1915. After further training in Egypt, he embarked from Alexandria on 23rd March 1916, reaching Marseilles on 30th March. He had left Australia as part of the 6th Reinforcements for the 19th Battalion, but in Egypt had beeen taken on the strength of the 4th Australian Infantry Battalion at Tel-el-Kebir.
He was killed in action between 23rd and 27th July 1916 at Pozières. He was buried ‘in the vicinity of Pozières’, with a map reference given for his grave in the military files. A subsequent enquiry into his whereabouts heard from several eyewitnesses, among them L Hayes (2383B):
‘I knew Hush; He was called Tiney and came over as 6th Reinf. to 19th Bn. He was shot through the head and killed outright on Monday 24.7.16 at Pozières and his body was put out of the trench on to the parapet, and I saw it on the parapet but do not know if it was ever buried. He was in B. and the only man with that name in B. He was a very big man and weighed about 20 stone and was one of the biggest men I ever saw. He came from Sydney in the Railway.’
The burial place could not later be located and Lush thus had no known grave. His name is engraved on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial at Picardie, France.
By the time service medals and other mementoes were distributed, Lush’s father had died (1918). His mother had died before the war. The legislated precedence was for the decorations to go to the eldest brother. However, the second brother, Frederick William Hush, wrote to inform the military authorities that the older brother, Henry Edward, and his wife, had both been in a mental hospital at Goulburn for ten years and were not expected to recover.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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