Booth, John (Private, b.? - d.1917)

Places	Europe: Belgium, Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Passchendaele Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Accession Number	1DRL/0134
Collection type	Private Record
Record type	Collection
Measurement	1 wallet: 1 cm
Object type	Papers
Maker	Booth, John
Date made	1915
Access	Open
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain
Copying Provisions	Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.

Description

Collection relating to service of 164 Private John Booth, 20 Battalion and 5 Machine Gun Company, Gallipoli, 1915. Collection includes memoir of service on Gallipoli. Memoir typed from unknown original. Original composed February 1917. Location of original unknown.

History / Summary

Biographical note: 164 Private John Booth, 20 Battalion. Killed in Action, Belgium, 9 October 1917. Age 30. Son of John and Ada Booth, of 54 Glassap St., Balmain, Sydney.