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233907L/Cpl. Rudolph Muscat
British Army 20th Btn Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Aldershor, Hanpshire
(d.22nd Oct 1917)
Rudolph Muscat served with the 20th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers and formally served in 65th Divisional ASC. He was killed in action on the 22nd of October 1917 and was posthumously awarded the British War Medal, the British Star and the Victory Medal. These medals have not survived in the family.Rudolph Muscat was born in London in October 1888, the eldest son of German parents, his father had moved to England in 1872, his mother was born in Germany, they married in England is 1885. The 1911 Rudolph was living with his mother in Aldershot, working as a general carman. In 1912 he married Ethel Clifford in Farnham and joined the army in August 1914. In 1915 his only child was born, but the infant died, aged 3 months. Rudolph served first in the ASC and later transferred to the Lancashire Fusiliers. He was killed in action in Flanders on 22nd October 1917, the day after his 29th birthday. His body was later found on a war site and identified. He was reburied in the Cement House War Graves cemetery at Langemark-Poelkapelle, Belgium.
Shortly after Rudolph's death his mother died, it is said she died of a broken heart. Rudolph was one of three brothers who fought for England. His brother Edward died of injuries in Salonika in October 1918. The youngest son Paul was injured three times and survived the war. Family history talks of cousins fighting cousins. In fact the WW1 War memorial in the home village of Grossengottern Germany, shows that one of their German cousins was also killed in the war.
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