Harold Sydney BUSHBY

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BUSHBY, Harold Sydney

Service Number:	4162
Enlisted:	23 September 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	11th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia , 18 April 1889
Home Town:	Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Civil Servant
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 26 January 1918, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Flanders I A 41
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Fremantle 849 Memorial, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial, Postmaster General's Department Perth WWI HR

World War 1 Service

23 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4162, 11th Infantry Battalion
17 Jan 1916:	Involvement Private, 4162, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
17 Jan 1916:	Embarked Private, 4162, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Fremantle
29 Mar 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4162, 11th Infantry Battalion, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles on board RMT Transylvania
8 May 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4162, 11th Infantry Battalion, WiA: Shell Shock

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Second of three brothers who served in the Army (Stan in WWI and Wilfred in WWII), Private Harold Sydney Bushby served four years with the Naval Reserve before enlisting in the AIF on 23 September 1915. Private Bushby was attached to 11th Infantry Battalion on 17 January 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Fremantle for Suez on board HMAT A30 Borda. On 29 March 1916 he embarked from Alexandria for Marseilles on board RMT Transylvania. Private Bushby served on the Western Front - where he was WiA on 7 May 1916, and hospitalised in England with Shell Shock. On 26 January 1918 Private Bushby (Company Signaller, attached to 11th Infantry Battalion) was KiA at Messines when a minniewerfer (minenwerfer) shell exploded on his dugout. Private McRae (Service No:7761) reported 'At Messines he was killed by a shell when in close supports. I saw him taken out and I saw his grave in a small cemetery just behind Support Line just over the Messine Ridge. I knew him well - he worked with me in Australia' (Red Cross Files; AWM). Private Bushby's effects, returned to his mother, consisted of a Disc, steel mirror, letters, photos, a notebook, 2 wallets, 1 Chevron and 2 Unit Colours (NAA).

Harold was born in Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales, second of six children of William James Bushby (b1868 in Cumbria, England) and Sarah (Annie) Jane Buhl (b1872 in West Maitland, New South Wales). William had immigrated in 1880 with his parents and siblings, and was a Carpenter in 1895 when he and Annie married in West Maitland. They lived in West Maitalnd, the Hunter Valley and Sydney before moving to Western Australia in the early 1900s. By 1912 William and Annie had settled in Fremantle, where they raised their family and William was a Carpenter.

Harold joined the Civil Service in 1912, and was a Telegraph Messenger with the Postmaster Generals Department in Fremantle when he enlisted in the AIF in 1915.

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