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Home Page The Men The Families The Cemeteries History Visit Gallipoli Contact Us Site Map The Project   RUSH, Harold A.I.F.
Unit 10th Australian Light Horse Rank Trooper Service no. 152
Date of Death 7 August 1915 Place of Death  

Age

 23
Cemetery Walker's Ridge Details II.C.4
Epitaph His last words Goodbye cobber God bless you
   
Next of Kin (Father) RUSH Robert  
Parents Robert and Amy Rush Bradfield St George, Bury St, Edmund's. England
Date of Birth   Place of birth England, Witnesham, Ipswich Source  
           

General

“The word spread along the line.  Trooper Harold Rush, a young farmhand, realising he was likely to die in the next few moments, turned to his mate beside him and said: ‘Goodbye cobber.  God bless you’.  Later, when his grieving parents were told this they arranged for his last words to be inscribed on his headstone, which today lies in the cemetery on Walker’s Ridge.

The Nek, Peter Burness, page 113 (Source 5)
   

Other Sources

  
Photo The Western Mail Newspaper, 17 September 1915, page 23 (source 52)
Newspaper article The Western Mail Newspaper, 24 September 1915, page 31 (source 52)
Family details
Headstone

http://www.diggerhistory2.info (source 79)
 

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