Private Walter Booth

Army Number : 12851

Battalion : 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Son of Thomas and Annie Booth, of 25, Clinton Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Edith Booth. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Worksop. He served in Gallipoli during 1915 with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He died of wounds 24th July 1918.24th July 1918.

Buried : Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 2. Row C. Grave 1.

Private Walter Booth is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Worksop War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary and St Cuthberts; Priory War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Sergeant Frank Booth 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great  war