Christopher ("Kit") Bushell · Lt.-Col. · † 1918

Personal data

Name	Bushell
Initials	C.
Christian name	Christopher ("Kit")
Date and place of birth	Neston, Cheshire; 31.10.1888
Profession	Barrister
Family	Married to Rachel (nee Lambert), 24.08.1915; Boughton Aluph, Kent

Rank	Lt.-Col.
Regiment / Unit	7 The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Date of death	08/08/1918
Age	29
Cemetery / Memorial	Querrieu British Cemetery (France), E.6

Information: Visited Talbot House on 17.01.1918 and "begged for waste-paper and sandbags of sufficient quality, if possible, to make gaiters and snow-boots for his depleted battalion." (P.B. Clayton - Tales of Talbot House)
Information 2: D.S.O., V.C., Mentioned in Despatches (4)
Information 3: 'The Cradock Lamp' - Valparaiso Branch, Chile. Endowed on 03.07.1929. First lit on 07.12.1929 at The Royal Albert Hall, London by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. "To the undying memory of Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock and the officers and men lost at the Battle of Coronel, November 1914; and in memory of Lt.-Col. Christopher Bushell, V.C., D.S.O., Queen's Royal West Surrey Regt., Morlancourt, August, 1918; and of Robert George Hassall, Pte., 43rd Canadian Inf., Arras, September 1918; and of Mrs Florence Maude Hassall, V.A.D., Clermont Ferrand, September 1929." (Donated by Branch members). Brass plaques held at Toc H archive, Birmingham.