Education
Corpus Christi College. Rugby School.
Corpus Christi College. Rugby School.
On 23 March 1918 west of Saint Quentin"s Canal and north of Tergnier, France, Lieutenant Colonel Bushell personally led C Company of his battalion, who were cooperating with an Allied regiment in a counterattack. In the course of this attack he was severely wounded in the head, but continued to carry on, walking in front of both English and Allied troops, encouraging them and visiting every portion of the lines in the face of terrific machine-gun and rifle fire. He refused to go to the rear until he had to be removed to the dressing station in a fainting condition.
He was killed in action to the south of Morlancourt, Somme, France, on 8 August 1918.
He is buried at Querrieu CWGC, Somme, France. In 1923, the Christopher Bushell Prize of books, for Modern History undergraduates, was established at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where Bushell read Modern History from 1906-1909.