On April 12th 1915 Frederick Charles Bush joined
the Royal Navy as a Stoker and started his training at Pembroke II the Royal Navy Shore Station in Sheppey, Kent.
He was 18 years and 4 months old and just 5 foot 2 1/2
inches tall with brown hair, hazel eyes and a fresh complexion and had previously been working as a
warehouseman.
Frederick Charles Bush (My first cousin three times removed) was born on the 7th
December 1896 in Wimbledon, Surrey. The third son of Edwin and Ada Bush (Nee
Searle) growing up in the family home at 8 Leyton Road, South Wimbledon. His
mother passed away in 1910 aged just 38 years old, with Frederick only 14 years old and by 1911 the family were living at 41a Cowper Road, Wimbledon. However Frederick was at the Holme Court Industrial School for Boys,
Twickenham Rd, Isleworth, which was a certified truant industrial school.
Frederick had two older brothers Edwin (born 1893) and Alfred (born 1895) and three
younger brothers Arthur (born 1900), Albert (born 1903) and George (born 1908). Two other brothers, Horace and John
had died in infancy. His eldest brother, Edwin, had recently married Rosetta
Turner.
Frederick’s father Edwin had served in the Royal Navy
from 1884 to 1892.
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