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Pte. Charles Booth
British Army 12th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hollinhurst, Woodlesford, Yorkshire
(d.14th July 1916)
Charlie Booth joined up in November 1915, left for France in Sep 1915 and was at the battle of Loos in the same month. Due to the lack of experience hunger tired and thirsty casualties were high. The Battalion made its way to Armentiers, were they gained mores experience from better trained troops. In 1916 he and the Battalion spent time in Ypres and was involved in fighting at St Eloi. Although not in action at the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, on the 14th of July the Battalion as part of the Bazenting Ridge Charles Booth was killed along with 45 other men, his body was identified but due to the battle ground being held and fought over for weeks his body was lost and his name in commemorated on the Thiepval memorial to the Missing. He left a widow and 3 children, aged 10, 8 and 3.
