Bryan Rush


Bryan Joseph Rush was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League.

Family

The son of Roger Robert Rush, and Mary Rush, née Berry, Bryan Joseph Rush was born at Port Fairy, Victoria on 2 April 1893.

Wife

He married Lorna McKay in 1927.

Siblings

Four of his seven brothers also played VFL football :

Collingwood (VFL)

Recruited from the Beverly Football Club in the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association in 1912.

New South Wales

In 1929 he was the honorary coach of the New South Wales side that came from behind to beat Tasmania by one point, at the Sydney Cricket ground on 22 June 1929.

Military service

A Commonwealth public servant with the Treasury Department, he enlisted in the First AIF on 21 September 1914, and served overseas in the Australian Army Pay Corps.
In 1942, by this time a chartered accountant, he enlisted in the Second AIF, and served as the District Finance Officer at the Sydney Barracks, with the rank of Major.