Herbert Booth
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Herbert was born in 1881 in East Markham and was the son John Booth a shoemaker , Of Low St., East Markham, Newark, and his late wife Annie. his siblings were Tom - Alice and Harriet In the 1891 census the family are living at Top Street , East Markham Herbert is 9 years of age. By 1901 he is 18 years of age and has left home , he is a boarder living with Nathan Tebbitt and family living at Cavendish Street, Shirebrook, Pleasley he is working as a railway engine cleaner. By the 1911 census he is living with his married sister Harriet Radford and her husband Thomas at Providence Road, Jacksdale, he is 28 years of age and working as Iron works fitter.
Herbert enlisted in Ilkeston and gave his residence as Ironville, at first he served with the service number 61322 in The Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derbys ) Regiment before transferring to the 206th company of the Machine Gun Corps. He was killed in action on 15th June 1917, he has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Pas De Calais, France
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