Gunner Norman George BUSBY (College Staff)

156th (Oxfordshire) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
Born 1895 in Coombe, Oxfordshire
Killed in action 8 October 1918, aged 23
Buried at Zantvoorde British Cemetery, Belgium.

Norman Busby was the son of Alfred Luther Busby and Laura, née Bedding, of 90 Walton Street, Oxford. Alfred went to South Africa in 1902 and was not heard from again.

Norman joined the Royal Garrison Artillery in November 1915 and was posted overseas on 19th June 1916.

He was killed in action on 8 October 1918, and was buried in a (marked) roadside grave at a point between Wervicq and Tenbrielen, near Ypres, Belgium. His body was exhumed and reburied at Zantvoorde Military Cemetery, on 1 September 1925.