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Military service
Service number:
902156
Age:
25
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
"A" Coy. 85th Bn.
Birth:
March 7, 1892
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Woodbury and Elizabeth Rushton, of 27, Hood's Avenue, West Somerville, Mass., U.S.A. Native of Oxford, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Corporal Oscar Eugene Rushton
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War Diary
War Diary Sgt. Rushton was killed as he urged his company forward in the fierce battle on October 30, 1917, which is described in Appendix A of the 85th Battalion diary. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Corporal Oscar Eugene Rushton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Oscar Eugene Rushton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 320 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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