True and Fascinating Canadian History
Loos Memorial.
Pas de Calais, France
In Memory of:
John Wheler Bush. WWI. KIA
"The Loos Memorial forms the sides and back of Dud Corner Cemetery. Dud Corner Cemetery stands almost on the site of a German strong point, the Lens Road Redoubt, captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the battle.
The name "Dud Corner" is believed to be due to the large number of unexploded enemy shells found in the neighbourhood after the Armistice.
The Loos Memorial commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay. On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice.
The Memorial was designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by Charles Wheeler. It was unveiled by Sir Nevil Macready on 4 August 1930."
The description above was quoted from the website
http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/79500/LOOS%20MEMORIAL
"Second Lieutenant (Royal Scots Fusiliers, British Army) John Wheeler Bush (b.1886) of unknown address died 19150925 and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Loos-en-Gohelle, Pas-de-Calais, France, for the 20,000 soldiers who died in the Loos sector who have no known grave.
He was the son of Robert Frances Evans and Grace Marianne Bush of Rugby, Warwickshire, England, and left a wife Hester Frances at Earl's Court, London.
John had five years of experience with the RNWMP and was working as a chartered accountant when he enlisted in the 19th Alberta Dragoons as a private (1936) at Camp Valcartier, Québec, on the outbreak of the war."
Source of quote above was taken from website
http://svwm.ca/casualty-display/?ID=A000011646
Notes & Appreciation to: Loos Memorial. Pas De, France
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/728998/BUSH,%20JOHN%20WHELER
Commonwealth War Dead.
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/728998/BUSH,%20JOHN%20WHELER
Address:
Loos Memorial. Pas De Calais, France
Source for notes about Constable John Wheler Bush's participation in WWI.
The Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial.http://svwm.ca/casualty-display/?ID=A000011646
