George Bruback

Private August George Brubach, who served as George Bruback, was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in Lewisham, the son of German-born parents Valentin, a bootmaker, and Mathilde Brubach. At the time of the 1911 Census, Brubach was apprenticing as a wood carver while boarding at Macgregor House, 9 Wine Office Court. 
Age 24, Bruback died on 30 July 1916, during the Somme Offensive, while serving on the Western Front with the 7th Battalion, The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Three of his brothers died during the war: Frederick (1918), Henry (September 1916), and Oscar (1915).
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Thiepval Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Bruback, George, cwgc.org. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1916 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Thiepval Memorial
Category:Privates