Alan Barling LUSH

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LUSH, Alan Barling

Service Numbers:	258, 947, 3163
Enlisted:	29 August 1914
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	35th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Donhead, Wiltshire, England, 22 April 1872
Home Town:	Mosman, Municipality of Mosman, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Railway Construction Expert
Died:	Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 22 September 1944, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW Plot: A13 - Anglican F Monumental 13, Position 692
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 258, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry
1 Mar 1900:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 258, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray P. 463 notes 3rd QMI embarked 1 Mar 1900 aboard Duke of Portland arriving Cape Town 2 Apr 1900.
17 May 1901:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 258, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier notes invalided due to Chronic Ague returned to Australia aboard Tongariro arriving Brisbane 3 May 1901, discharged 17 May 1901.

World War 1 Service

29 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 947, 3rd Infantry Battalion
1 Sep 1914:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 3rd Infantry Battalion
19 Oct 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 947, 3rd Infantry Battalion
25 Apr 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 947, 3rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, National Archives Australia WW1 service records notes wounded left buttock at Gallipoli 25 Apr 1915 on the same day he landed at Gallipoli.
8 Feb 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 947, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Invalided due to wound to left buttock, neurasthenia and malaria. Embarked at Plymouth 8 Oct 1915 aboard Suevic arriving Sydney 20 Nov 1915, discharged 8 Feb 1916.
12 Dec 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 3163, 36th Infantry Battalion
10 May 1917:	Involvement Corporal, 3163, 36th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
10 May 1917:	Embarked Corporal, 3163, 36th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney
30 Apr 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, 35th Infantry Battalion
25 May 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 35th Infantry Battalion
10 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3163, 35th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

Alan Barling Lush had a long history of military service having served in the First Matabele War (1893), the South African (Boer) War, and serving twice in WW1.

He noted on his WW1 Attestation Papers under previous service that he had first served in the First Matabele War in the British South Africa (Company) Police force during which he was wounded in 1893 after which he made his way to Australia. In 1894 he married Pheodora Jones in Sydney and between 1895 and 1899 he was located at Clermont Qld working as a gold prospector.

His second service would be as a Private S.N. 258 in the 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, Boer War.

He was living in Sydney when he enlisted for his third service as a Private (rising in rank to Corporal) S.N. 947 in the 3rd Infantry Battalion AIF WW1. He landed at Gallipoli on 25 Apr 1915 and on the same day suffered a shrapnel wound to the left buttock. He was subsequently declared medically unfit, returned to Australia and discharged in Sydney.

About 10 months later he re-enlisted for a fourth service as a Corporal (rising in rank to Sergeant) in the 36th and 35th Infantry Battalion AIF WW1. On this deployment he served in Belgium and France.

(sources AWM Boer War Nominal Roll; National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier & WW1 service records; and Australian Boer War Memorial Database biography).

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