Bush C G Major DSO Army Service Corps
BUSH, CHARLES GERALD, D.S.O., Major. Army Service Corps, s. of the late Henry Edward Bush, Merchant, by his wife, Jeannette (Normandy Lodge, Vanbrugh Park Road. Blackheath, S.E.), dau. of P. G. Dodd b. Newchway, North China, 16 Aug. 1876; edue. Forest School, Walthamstow, and on the Continent: was an Export Merchant: joined the Army Service Corps in 1914; was gazetted Lieut. 1 Feb. 1915; promoted Capt. 22 March, 1915. and Major, 11 Sept. 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, being appointed Senior Supply Officer to the 19th Division, and died at a casualty clearing station 25 Nov. 1918, from influenza, contracted while on active service. Buried at Anoingt Cemetery. His Commanding Officer wrote: “I cannot speak too highly of Major C. S. Bush’s work he was a man who gained the respect of everyone with whom he served, and was loved by everyone without exception. As his late Commanding Officer, I can only say he had my entire trust and confidence,” and a Colonel: “I don’t suppose in the whole army there was an officer who had a better knowledge of or did his work more conscientiously and efficiently: His death has he was a real loss to the army.” Another officer also wrote: “He left a gap in the train that we shall never now fill, as owing to his experience and business energy as Senior Supply Officer he had made a reputation upon which the division implicitly relied.” He was twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazettes, 4 Jan, and 20 May, 1917] by F.M. Sir Douglas Haig, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette, 3 June, 1917), for gallant and distinguished service in the field; unm
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5