2nd Lieutenant Frederick Arthur RUSHWORTH
Remembrance - The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War
2nd Lieutenant Frederick Arthur RUSHWORTH
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2nd Lieutenant Frederick Arthur RUSHWORTH

2nd Lieutenant Frederick Arthur RUSHWORTH
2nd Lieutenant Frederick Arthur RUSHWORTH
Photo : Imperial war Museum

2nd Lieutenant Frederick Arthur RUSHWORTH

6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 29 September 1916.
Commemorated on Pier and Face 3A & 3D, THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
(From the 1911 Census, the family - Father Frederick, Mother Jane, with Frederick and their daughter Jane, all worked at a Worsted Mill in Haworth, Yorkshire.)
The following biographical notes are taken from Robert Coulson's biographies of Yorkshire Regiment Officers who lost their lives in the First World War;-
"(Frederick Arthur Rushworth first served in Gallipoli with the 6th Battalion, arriving in Mudros on 22 November 1915.
The 6th Battalion returned from Egypt to the Western Front in July 1916 and moved into the Somme offensive in early September.
2nd Lt Frederick Arthur Rushworth was killed in fighting at Hessian Trench and Stuff Redoubt on the Somme on September 29th 1916 at the age of 21.
His body never recovered he is remembered today on the Thiepval Memorial and his name can also be found on a memorial plaque in Haworth's West Lane Methodist Chapel."

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