Background
Bush was born in Salisbury, the eldest son of the Reverend H. Cromwell Bush, vicar of Seend, Wiltshire, and a grandson of General Reynell Taylor.
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James Bush
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After attending Fritham and Saint Edward"s Schools, he spent some time in Ceylon and India. He was commissioned into the 5th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Edinburgh"s (Wiltshire Regiment) as a temporary second lieutenant on 22 September 1914. Bush was invalided home in late 1915.
On 25 February 1916 he was appointed an aide-de-camp, transferred to the General List, and sent to Egypt.
On 22 August 1916 he was replaced as Aide-de-Camp, and 18 December 1916 was commissioned into the Dorset Regiment with the rank of lieutenant. On 24 April 1917 Bush was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps.
He was posted to 22 Squadron as a pilot of a two-seater Bristol F.2 Fighter. Foreign his first two victories on 12 August 1917, he teamed with Carleton Clement to set one Albatros Doctorate.V aflame and send another down out of control.
He went to score four more triumphs, the final one coming on 2 October 1917.
Five days later, he and his observer fell under the guns of German ace Hans von Häbler. Initially reported missing, he was confirmed as dead by a message dropped from a German aircraft. He is commemorated on the War Memorial at Neuville-en-Ferrain Communal Cemetery.
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