Ernest Pusch

Second Lieutenant Ernest John Pusch was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1897, at Edmonton, the youngest son of Russian-born parents Emile, a bank clerk originally of Riga, and Helen Pusch (née Jacobs). Pusch received his education at Cottesmore and Bradfield before entering New College. Less than a year after the outbreak of war, in May 1915, Pusch enlisted in the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps. He obtained his commission in September, in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.The Times (41249), Col C, p. 7; "Fallen Officers". 18 August 1916.The London Gazette (29284), p. 8816, 4 September 1915. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
On 20 July 1916, Pusch arrived in France as a second lieutenant in the 11th Warwickshires. Accompanying him was his friend, the author and poet A. A. Milne. By then, Pusch had been made aware of the death of his older brother, Frederick, who had died in June while serving with the Irish Guards. To his embarrassment, his fretting mother had sent him a chainmail undergarment, asking that he promise to wear it. Pusch was killed at Mametz Wood on 8 August. Milne recounted the circumstances of his death, recalling that he was killed by a shell 'just as he was settling down to his tea' at Mametz Wood.Van Emden, Richard (2008), Famous: 1914-1918, pp. 26-8. 
He is buried in Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Pusch, E J, cwgc.org. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
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