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Gosford District Casualties of World War One
Bragg, Edmund Allen Service Number 1494
Killed in Action 19th May 1915 Gallipoli Peninsula
Gosford District Casualties of World War One
Bushell, Archie Ernest Service Number 2526
Killed in Action 11th June 1917 Battle of Messines, Belgium
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Benalyn Campbell
And Vivienne Tranter
in compiling this resource
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(© Commonwealth of Australia [National Archives of Australia] 2013)
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NAME Bushell, Archie Ernest
SERVICE NO 2526
UNIT 36th Battalion, 4
th Rienf.
RANK Private
AGE at Enlistment 26 yrs 6 mths
PLACE OF BIRTH Petrie Creek, QLD
ADDRESS Popran Park, via Gosford
OCCUPATION Engineer
DATE OF ENLIST-MENT
26 Apr 1916
PLACE OF ENLIST-MENT
Gosford, NSW
PREVIOUS SERVICE nil
NEXT OF KIN Parents Jacob & Maria Bushell, Popran Park, Peats Ridge.
PHYSICAL DESCRIP-TION
Height-5’9”.Weight-158lbs. Chest-35-37
Complexion-Fair. Eyes-Blue. Hair-Reddish.
RELIGION C/E
EMBARKED Sydney-9 Nov 1916 HMAT A 24 “Benalla”
DISEMBARKED Devonport 9 Jan 1917
NOTES AWOL midnight 3/3/17 –midnight 4/3/17
WOUNDED/ILLNESS 28 Sep 1916- Influenza
25 Nov 1916-Sick to ships hosp. VD.
DIED KIA 11 Jun 1917- Belgium in battle of Messines
BURIED
MEDALS British War Medal-53165, Victory Medal-52405. Memorial Plaque & Scroll-326448
DEPENDANTS
PERSONAL EFFECTS
WILL Yes
CORRESPONDENCE
REMARKS
RED CROSS REPORT Yes – killed while manning Lewis gun, killed outright by shell fire.
Sc Ancestry Tree Birth c1890 parents Jacob Bushell & Maria Reynolds Died 11/6/1917- Leper, West Vlaanderen, Belgium
Gosford Times 29.3.1917.
Sergeant Major A.E. bushel, of Popran, is now in camp at
Salisbury Plains, England. giving his experiences, he says –
“There is absolutely no waste in this camp. All the waste tea
and crumbs of bread &c, are sold to the farmers, waste fat is
sent to the munitions factory and turned into nitroglycerine,
while tins and bottles are used up for shrapnel. But the lim-
ited rations do not permit of very much being left over after
the meal”.
Gosford Times 12.7.1917.
KILLED IN ACTION
Sergeant Major “Archie Bushell” The sad news was received on Friday, last that Ser-
geant Major A. E. Bushell, 5th Reinforcements 36
th
Battalion, had been killed in action on 11th June. The
news came as a shock, seeing that this gallant young
son of Mangrove Mountain had only recently gone
into the fighting line, after having been instructing at
Salisbury Plains, England, for some time, and hav-
ing gained some commendation for success and
practice. He was the second son of Cr. Jacob
Bushell, of “Popran Park”, Gosford, and 26 years of
age. The late Sergeant Major Bushell received his
first training in military evolutions under Major Cowl-
ishaw and Lieutenant Winterbottom in the Mangrove
Mt. Volunteer Corps, 50 per cent of whom enlisted.
He was a fine type of young Australian, a worthy son
of worthy parents, and his untimely end is sincerely
regretted. The news was broken to the family on Fri-
day evening by Canon McDonnell, and on Sunday
the Canon held service with the family. A number of
neighbours called to express their sympathy to the
bereaved, Rev. C.B. Elwin being among them. Mrs
Bushell is away in Brisbane, with family friends, en-
deavoring to recuperate failing health, and the shock
will be a severe one to the mother who idolized her
soldier son. We join with the people of the Shire in
the general sympathy expressed for the bereaved
relatives.
Gosford Times 20.9.1917.
ROLL OF HONOR BUSHELL – Killed in action in France Sergeant-Major A. E. (Archie) Bushell 11
th June 1917. Aged 27 years.
Somewhere in France he lies, rolled in a Union Jack; Tears may flow, but still we know, We can never bring him back. His fame it will live in story, Wherever our flag is unfurled; He died for his King and Country, And the freedom of the world. Inserted by his loving father and Mother, J. and M. Bushell, and brothers and sisters.
Gosford Times 1.11.1917.
Late Sergeant-Major Bushell Mrs A. Franklin of Namba, via Nowra, writes to Mrs Bushell, of her son Sergeant-Major A. E. Bushell, who was killed recently in France:- Dear Mrs Bushell, - We were all sorry to hear of your son’s death. I am sending you a letter received by my daughter from France, I thought if you did not already have particulars it would be a comfort for you to know that he did not suffer, and that he was buried in God’s Acre. I lost my son just a year ago. Our dear ones have only gone before. They are safe and at rest – they were both good pure boys, and it is good to think they are waiting for us. Some time, some day, our eyes shall see that dear face we hold in memory; and Christ shall link their broken chain still closer when we meet again. You all have our deep sympathy and prayers in your sad trouble”. “Somewhere in France, 1
st July, 1917. – Miss Jessie M. Franklin. –
A parcel arrived today for a Sergeant-Major A.E. Bushell, and under
the circumstances I opened it and shared it with some of the boys in
same Platoon. I regret to say he is not with us to enjoy your gift. He
was not with us very long. He came in the Battalion with two more
friends, who were both wounded before he was killed. He passed me
in the trench about five minutes before it happened, and a shell
lanced close to the trench, a flying fragment from it killing him in-
stantly. He was buried in a military cemetery, but I do not know which
one, as we are always moving – hardly in the same place twice. As
you will guess, it happened in the Messines battle. Although only with
us only but a short time he had made many friends, and was very
much liked. But such is the price of war. We have lost a large number
of comrades, but we have to carry on just the same with deepest sym-
pathy from all Sergeant Bushell’s comrades, I remain, (157) SERGT.
S. J. REEVES, A Coy, 36 Battalion.
Gosford Times 13.6.1918
ROLL OF HONOR BUSHELL – In loving memory of our dear son, A. E. (Archie) Bushell, 36
th Battalion, who was killed in action
in Messines Battle, 1th June, 1917. Aged 27 years. Into the field of battle, he bravely took his place, And fought and for England and the honour of his race; He sleeps not in his native land, but neath a foreign sky, Far from those that love hime dearly, but in a hero’s grave he lies’ Somewhere in France they have laid him, our dear son so young and so brave, Far from the land of the wattle, no loved ones to weep o’er his grave. Inserted by his loving father and mother, J. and M.
Bushell.
BUSHELL – In loving memory of our dear brother and my dear comrade, A. E. (Archie) Bushell, 36
th Battal-
ion, who was killed in action in Messines Battle, 11th
June, 1917. Aged 27 years. Gone is our brother and my comrade so dear, silent the voice we loved to hear; In our hearts we will always miss him, Though we know he is only at rest. We mourn his loss, but his actions, Sweet balm to his loved ones bring, For he is ever a hero. Who dies for his Country, God, and King. Inserted by his loving sisters and brothers, Alice,
Edie, Frank and Walter, and comrade, A.C. Murdith,
(returned).
Gosford Times 27.6.1918.
ROLL OF HONOR
BUSHELL – In loving memory of our dear brother, Archie, killed in action in France, between 11
th and 17
th June, 1917.
There came a day when the roll was called that he did no answer here; He fell in the awful battle, We know that he fought brave and true; Fought for his home and country, and the flag of the red, white and blue. Inserted by his loving brother and sister-in-law, J. R. and E.
Bushell.
Gosford Times 5.6.1919
BUSHELL – In loving memory of our dear son and our dear brother, Sergt-Major A.E. (Archie) Bushell, 36
th Battalion,
who was killed in action in France in Messines Battle , 11th
June, 1917. Aged 27 years. When you hear of brave boys dying, You may not care, they’re not your own; But when you lose a loved one, That is the time when it strikes home. And now this war is over, And the heroes come marching home; O, God, have pity for the watching ones, Whose loved ones can never come home. O, darling, how we pray that, When life’s cares are o’er, Your loving smile may greet The broken hearts you have left behind. Inserted by his sorrowing parents M and J Bushell, and
brothers Josh, Frank, and Walter, and sisters, Alice and Edie.
Gosford Times 12.6.1919.
ROLL OF HONOR
BUSHELL – In loving memory of dear Archie, who died for us in France, between 11
th and 17
th June, 1917.
Our Thoughts often wander to a grave in a far off land. Inserted by his loving brother and sister-In law, J.R. and E.
Bushell.
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