Name
Sidney Herbert Rush
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/06/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
10268
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
Row E, Grave 14.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
St Michael and All Angels Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Mary Elizabeth (nee RUTLAND) RUSH of Watford, and the late Edward RUSH.
His parents married 7 October 1888 at St Andrew’s, Watford. Edward died 1898 in Watford aged 29, and was buried 9 November in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Mary died 1944 in Watford aged 75, and was buried 18 October, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Sidney was born 1895 in Watford, and baptised 4 January 1899 at St Mary’s, Watford. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Watford, with his widowed mother and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, a caddy aged 16, he still lived in Watford, with his widowed mother and two siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 16 August 1914, and died at no. 14 Field Ambulance of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Sidney’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
There is an In Memoriam to Sidney in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 10 June 1916.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
