FINE CAMPAIGN GROUP OF SIX TO BUSH NORFOLK REGIMENT AND NOTTS AND DERBY REGIMENT

India General Service Medal (1854) clasp: BURMA 1887-89.
Named to: 1499 PTE B BUSH 2ND BN NORF R
Queens South Africa Medal (ghost dates),clasps: CAPE COLONY/PAARDEBERG/JOHANNESBURG.
Kings South Africa Medal,clasps: SOUTH AFRICA 1901/SOUTH AFRICA 1902. Both named to: 1499 PTE B.BUSH.NORFOLK REGT.
1914/15 Star trio,named to: 7138 PTE B BUSH NOTTS &DERBY R.
Benjamin Bush was born in Wortham,near Diss in about 1864.He was serving with the 4th Militia Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment when he attested for the Norfolk Regiment in Great Yarmouth on 6th October,1885 aged 21.Serving in the depot, he went to Gibraltar on 12th December 1885,and in 1886 he was absent from the defaulters roll call,and sent to prison for 3 days with hard labour. After being confined to barracks for eight days for "breaking out of Barracks,and remaining absent, he was sent to India,in 1886.He returned from India in 1890, having qualified for the Burma Medal.He was transferred to the reserve the on 1st August 1894,and gave his address as 6,Goose Lane,Waterloo Road, New Catton. He re-engaged for another 4 years and was recalled for War Service in December 1899.Going to South Africa 4th January 1900,he returned home May 1902, having qualified for his Boer War Medals.
The 1911 Census shows Benjamin living at 32, Auckland Place,Chesterfield as a Widower and working at the Ironworks .On the outbreak of WW1, Benjamin enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters in Derby 9th September 1914.He was posted to Salonika on 12th November 1915,where he served with the H.Q.staff,Salonica Expeditionary Force.Benjamin returned home in September 1916 before being discharged due to no longer being fit for war service 9th May, 1917,and he was awarded the Silver War Badge, no. 174762.Benjamin Bush passed away in Chesterfield in 1948.
Comes with a massive file of research,copied service papers, census returns,etc.etc.(please note- too bulky to send abroad)
An interesting recipient, and a scarce group.

Code: 52036