George Harold BUSH

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BUSH, George Harold

Service Numbers:	10, V25454
Enlisted:	18 August 1914
Last Rank:	Lieutenant Colonel
Last Unit:	Royal Flying Corps
Born:	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 4 October 1894
Home Town:	Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Public Servant
Died:	1986, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

18 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 10, 4th Light Horse Regiment
19 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 10, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
19 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 10, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne
16 Mar 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 10, 1st Division Headquarters, Discharged to the Royal Flying Corps with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant
17 Mar 1917:	Involvement Royal Flying Corps

World War 2 Service

11 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant Colonel, V25454

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

2nd Lieutenant George Harold Bush was born in Bendigo during 1894. He enlisted in August 1914, one of the first men from Bendigo to join up, and left Australia with the first Anzacs, in the 4th Light Horse Regiment. He was promoted to Staff Sergeant and was serving with the 1st Division HQ when he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. He eventually served in France with the 45 Squadron RFC, in the same unit as Raymond Brownell, flying Sopwith Camels. On the 26 September 1917 he crash landed his Camel in no man’s land due engine trouble on patrol but survived unscathed. He was promoted to Captain in the RAF during April 1918. He returned to Australia after the armistice and later served in the Australian Army during WW2, finishing with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

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