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Posts Tagged Percy Bush-Cox

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PERCY BUSH-COX – A WORLD WAR ONE MYSTERY

On September 11, 2025   /   History   /   4 Comments
Tags: Ernest Durham, Identity theft, Percy Bush-Cox, WWI
PERCY BUSH-COX - A WORLD WAR ONE MYSTERY

FOR THE FIRST PART OF THIS STORY ON PERCY BUSH-COX, CLICK HERE. Percy Bush-Cox enlisted with the Leicestershire Regiment in World War I.  In June 1918 he was reported in the press as having been  wounded for the second time. Percy Bush-Cox is pictured at right in

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Ernest Durham/Percy Bush-Cox – a Great War Conundrum

On September 11, 2025   /   History   /   1 Comment
Tags: Ernest George Durham, Identity theft, Percy Bush-Cox, Rouen, WWI
Ernest Durham/Percy Bush-Cox - a Great War Conundrum

Returned serviceman Ernest Durham would have been amazed to find  that after his death in 1949 he would become the centre of a story so bizarre I hardly know where to start.  😎 Private Durham signed up in 1916 with the newly formed 34th Battalion. It was

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Private Bush-Cox – The Living Dead

On September 11, 2025   /   History   /   1 Comment
Tags: Ernest Durham, Percy Bush-Cox, Sawston, The Willows Folk Group, Wimblington, WWI
Private Bush-Cox - The Living Dead

FOR THE PREVIOUS PART OF THIS STORY, CLICK HERE. Sawson is a quiet village south of Cambridge in the U.K.  On  December 30 1954 there was disbelief  when  local widower  ‘Ernest Durham’ was found  dead in his garden, a bullet through his head. In the same incident 

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