John Rodgers - Cobban Branch of Family Tree |
mary gilruth 1893 - 1964
Mary Gilruth Cobban was born on May 27 1893 at 5 Market Street Huntly Scotland, she died April 16 1964 3 weeks before her 70th birthday. Mary married Benedictus François Buslot on March 14 1916. Below is some information from a web page dedicated to Belgium soldiers who were buried abroad. The most northern of all places in the UK where a Belgian casualty of WW1 is buried, is the Scottish village of Huntly, 37 miles north-west of Aberdeen. The village has less than 5,000 inhabitants. The story of soldier Benoit François Buslot resting in a family tomb symbolizes that strange things can happen to a soldier in wartime. |
Benedictus François Buslot was born in Lebbeke on September 18, 1890. He enlisted as a volunteer in the Belgian army on August 6, 1914, and was assigned to the 1st infantry regiment. On October 4, 1914, he lost his left index finger in Duffel as a result of a bullet looking for a better target. There is no data in his military and medical files about the period between October 1914 and June 1915.
On June 19, 1915, he was probably already in England. He was granted leave of absence for an undetermined period of time by the committee for the sick and wounded. The reason for this ruling is nowhere indicated. On March 14, 1916, he married Mary Gilruth Cobban in Huntly and 5 days later he appears again before the committee for the sick and wounded. Had that marriage anything to do with the call to appear before that committee? He is sent back with leave of indefinite duration. In Huntly he goes to work as a mill worker. A birth certificate shows that in 1917 his son Francis Henri Buslot was born. He appears one last time before the committee for the sick and wounded in London on February 26, 1917, and he gets a dismissal without compensation. Unfit for service because of a crushing of the left knee under a wagon wheel. Where and when this happened, not a trivial piece of information, is not on file. Four months later, on June 21, 1917, he died of tuberculosis in Huntly. That disease was nowhere mentioned in his previous medical records. Below is the link to the web page the above information was taken from. http://www.1418fotograven.com/en/08vk/begin.htm |
Mary Gilruth and Francois had a child Francois Henri in 1917.
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