248530 Pte. Geoffery Booth British Army 2nd/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters from:Chesterfield My dad, Geoffery Booth was born in Rotherham and was adopted by a couple in a village called Hasland near Chesterfield and he was working in the furniture industry he met my mother and married.
He joined the Sherwood Foresters at the Army Depot in Chesterfield into the 2nd/5th Battalion. I have no idea where he went to train as a signaler during the war. I have been told the that he was sent to the Atlas Mountains as a signaler. As time went on he was captured and sent to a prison camp in Italy and later sent to another camp in Eastern Germany. During his time here he helped many of his fellow inmates on making use of the empty cans that were delivered in the parcels of food supplied by the Red Cross.
At the end of the war he was allowed to be discharged into the Territorial Army and eventually he was discharged from the Army. When he arrived back home he returned to his job as manager of a local furniture company looking after the second hand shop. He was there until he retired, a happy man who was looking forward to a quiet retirement.
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