Hussey

Jack Bruce Hussey

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Hussey, Jack B

12 January 1894, Kensington, London

George and Ellen (née Gosden)

1st/3rd Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

2004

Private

10 March 1915, France, age 20

Le Touret Memorial, Richebourg-l'Avoue, Nord-Pas-de-Calais,
France: Panel 44

Biography:
Jack Bruce Hussey was born on 12 January 1894, in Kensington, London. He was the son and second child (of eight) of George, a
stable manager (previously a corporal in the Royal Horse Artillery), and Ellen (née Gosden).

In about 1901, George and his family moved to Knaphill, Woking. George died in 1908, when Jack was 14.

London Regiment The 1st Battalion disembarked in France on 6 January 1915.

Jack Bruce Hussey was killed during the battle of Neuve Chapelle on 10 March 1915. His final resting place is unknown; his name,
with others of his regiment, appears on Panel 44 of Le Touret Memorial, Richebourg-l'Avoue, France.

The Le Touret Memorial commemorates over 13,400 British soldiers who were killed in this sector of the Western Front from the beginning of October
1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos in late September 1915 and who have no known grave. The Memorial takes the form of a loggia surrounding an open
rectangular court. The names of those commemorated are listed on panels set into the walls of the court and the gallery, arranged by regiment, rank and
alphabetically by surname within the rank. The memorial was designed by John Reginald Truelove, who had served as an officer with the London Regiment
during the war, and unveiled by the British ambassador to France, Lord Tyrrell, on 22 March 1930.

Almost all of the men commemorated on the Memorial served with regular or territorial regiments from across the United Kingdom and were killed in actions
that took place along a section of the front line that stretched from Estaires in the north to Grenay in the south. This part of the Western Front was the scene
of some of the heaviest fighting of the first year of the war, including the battles of La Bassée (10 October – 2 November 1914), Neuve Chapelle (10-12
March 1915), Aubers Ridge (9-10 May 1915), and Festubert (15-25 May 1915).

Jack Bruce Hussey is also commemorated on the memorial tablet within Knaphill Holy Trinity Church.