Patrick Dick Booth DSO, MC

Rank:

Captain

Unit at enlistment:

Royal Field Artillery

Force:

B.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

December 2nd, 1917

Cemetery:

Cambrai Memorial - Louverval, France - Panel 1.

Awards or decorations:

Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross

Commemorated at:

Zion Presbyterian Church , University of Edinburgh Roll of Honour

Birth country:

Scotland

Birth county:

Peeblesshire

Birth city:

Tweedsmuir

Address at enlistment:

Brantford, Ontario

Employer:

Lake Erie and Northern Railway

Religious denominations:

Presbyterian

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Gallantry medals:

Yes

Image gallery:

Letters and documents

London Gazette: 29357
Date: November 5, 1915
Honour or Award: Military Cross
Name: Patrick Dick Booth (Captain)
Unit: Royal Field Artillery

London Gazette: 30780
Date: July 2, 1918
Honour or Award: Distinguished Service Order
Name: Patrick Dick Booth (Captain)
Unit: Royal Field Artillery

Details: T. Capt. Patrick Dick Booth, M.C., R.F.A. for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Having rallied a party of divisional machine-gunners, who were retiring, he with one machine-gunner, succeeded in holding a ridge against the advancing enemy until an organized defence could be arranged. Later he took command of a party of infantry in order to clear a village just occupied by the enemy. Having captured five of the enemy and cleared the north end of the village, he encountered a party of twenty of the enemy armed with bombs. Though he was wounded in the subsequent fight, the enemy was driven back, thanks to his courageous efforts and those of the officer accompanying him. It was entirely due to the gallantry displayed by these two officers that an advanced dressing station was recaptured.

BX September 4, 1915

Lieutenant Patrick Dick Booth Awarded Military Cross

Word has been received in the city, that Lieut. Patrick D. Booth, formerly of the Lake Erie and Northern Railway in this city, has been awarded the much coveted Military Cross for his valor in laying telephone wires under heavy fire in the Gallipoli Peninsula. Lieut. Booth left the city at the outbreak of the war, and has made rapid strides in his military career since that time.

BX February 7, 1918

D.S.O. to Capt. Patrick Dick Booth – News Coincident with Announcement of His Death in Action

Coincident with the report of the death in action of Capt. Patrick D. Booth, formerly of this city, comes the official report today that he was recently reported wounded and missing, and for his distinguished work with the Royal Artillery, which he joined at the outbreak of the war, immediately leaving Brantford for Scotland, the high award of the Distinguished Service Order has been given. The later report that Capt. Booth met death in action has been received by his relatives. Capt. Booth before leaving Brantford was a member of the 32nd Battery.

BX February 6, 1918

Captain P.D. Booth Killed in Action – Former Brantfordite Saw Much Fighting in the Present War

In a letter to Mrs. John Fair, 34 Nelson Street, from Miss Booth, Abigail, Scotland, was the sad news of the death of her brother, Captain Patrick Dick Booth, on December 1st at the battle of Cambrai.

He was in Brantford at the outbreak of the war, and answered his country’s call at the first moment. When the war opened, being at the time with the 32nd Battery, he left hurriedly for his old home in Scotland, where he rejoined the artillery, with which he had been previously connected. He served at Gallipoli and in Egypt, and met his death while with the trench mortars in France. He had many friends here who regret the passing of a splendid type of young man.

University of Edinburgh
Roll of Honour – 1914-1918

BOOTH, PATRICK DICK (b. 1886).

Daniel Stewart's College; First XV. Student of Science, 1902-7; B.Sc. 1907. Trevelyan Scholar. Edin. City Art. Vol. Univ. Coy. 1906-8. Canadian R.A., 32nd Howitzer Battery, Lieut. R.F.A., 2nd Lieut. Aug. 1914; Lieut. Jan. 1915; Captain. Gallipoli, 29th Division, 1915-16. France 1916-17; Somme, Arras, Ypres, and Cambrai. M.C. June 191 5. Dispatches Nov. 1915 and May 1918. D.S.O. (posthumous) Cambrai 1917. Wounded at Dardanelles and Cambrai. Died of wounds near Les Rues Vertes on 1st December 1917. PI. IX.