Send a Message via the The Wartime Memories Project Website
Send a Message via The Wartime Memories Project Website
Your message will be forwarded to the last contact details we have, your email address will not be passed on, they can reply to you via this messaging system.
Please scroll down to send a message.
253368
Alfred George Booth
British Army 9th Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Aberfeldy St. Poplar
Alfred Booth fought at the Battle of the Somme where he was seriously wounded. He was returned to England with a piece of shrapnel still in his body.
It was reported in his pension records that it was unsafe to remove the shrapnel.
He was also reported to have suffered from shell shock.
He died in 1919 it is thought as a result of the shrapnel wound.