Saturday 2 June 2007

Private John Bertrand Booth

Born on 22 August 1891 in Prescott, Ontario - son of Mrs. J.M. Skinner, Iroquois, Ontario - 1918 recruitment form notes the following: present address RR #1 Prescott, Ontario, single, Church of England, trade as farmer, no current or previous military service, height of 5 feet 7 inches, chest of 35 inches fully expanded, fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair.

Conscripted into the 1st Depot Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, in Kingston, Ontario, on 9 January 1918 (number 3055793) - taken on the strength of the 38th Battalion in France on 9 or 10 August 1918 - wounded on 2 September 1918 - invalided to England on 12 September 1918.

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