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Rfmn. B. Rush
British Army 7th (Service) Btn. King Royal Rifle Corps
(d.6th Jul 1915)
B. Rush signed up for service with the Army and was sent to Winchester to begin training and was eventually taken on strength of the 7th (Service) Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps. He embarked for France on 19th May 1915 travelling by train through France into Belgium where his Battalion took up positions in the Ypres salient.
He is listed by the CWGC as having died on 6th July 1915 whilst the Battalion was manning front line trenches opposite Bellewaarde Farm to the East of Railway Wood. He is buried at the Ypres Town Cemetery Extension.