See also

Francis Cecil BOOTH (1899-1918)

Ralph BOOTH Margaret May BOOTH Ralph Percival BOOTH Lillian Frances LEWIS Mini tree diagram

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Birth:

  • 1899

  • West Hartlepool, DUR, ENG1

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  • Oct-Dec Quarter

  • Occupation:

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  • Private, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, WW1

  • Death:

  • 1 Oct 1918 (age 18-19)

  • Pas-de-Calais, PAS, FRA2

  •  

  • Cause: Killed in Action

    Private,7th Battalion Number:36619 King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)

    Killed in action, Western European Theatre formerly 5/5930, T.R. Battalion

     

  • Burial:

  • 1918

  • Vis-en-artois British Cemetery, Nord-pas-de-Calais, PAS, FRA3

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  • Vis-en-Artois and Haucourt are villages in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, on the road from Arras to Cambrai. The Cemetery is at the north side of the main road between the two villages.

     

    Vis-En-Artois and Haucourt were taken by the Canadian Corps on 27 August 1918. The cemetery was begun immediately afterwards and was used by fighting units and field ambulances until the middle of October. It consisted originally of 430 graves (in Plots I and II) of which 297 were Canadian and 55 belonged to the 2nd Duke of Wellington's Regiment. It was increased after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields of April-June 1917, August and September 1918, and from the smaller cemeteries in the neighbourhood.

Sources

1.

Civil Registration England 1837-1983. Vol 10a Page 146. Public Record Office (ENG). Tel: (0011441)876344.

2.

Commonwealth War Graves Commision. Public Record Office (ENG). Tel: (0011441)876344.

3.

Find a Grave. Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Panel 8. Ancestry Co. UK.