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Wars Last Goodbyes
Individual Record
Inscription
To the proud and loving
Memory of Major
Herbert
Geoffrey Lush-Wilson
R.H.A. Of Pyon House Canon Pyon
Who commanded Y Battery
R.H.A. for the last four months in
Gallipoli 29th Division received
The Chevalier Legion of Honour
Afterwards commanded the Y
Battery in France and was killed
Instantaneously 24th July 1916
Near Mailly Maillet Aged 33
The only son of his honour
Judge Lush-Wilson K.C. and the
Late Rose Frances Lush-Wilson
Portrait relief on top of this tablet
Place of Inscription
St Lawrence Canon Pyon
Herefordshire
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Herbert Geoffrey
Lush-Wilson
1883
Regents Park, London
21st July 1916
Killed outside Y Battery mess by a howitzer shell near Vitermont not far from Mailly Maillet on the Somme in France
33
Mailly Maillet Military Cemetery, Somme, France
Mailly Wood Cemetery, Mailly Maillet, Somme, France
First World War
Major
Y Battery Royal Horse Artillery
Y Battery
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
Served in Gallipoli and was one of the last to leave. His grave was lost by enemy fire in Mailly Maillet Military Cemetery but there is a special memorial in Mailly Wood Cemetery with five others whose graves were lost. Serving in India with his Y Battery when war broke out
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