Corporal Harvey Booth
1772 1/5th East Lancashire Regiment
Missing in Action 9th August 1915, aged 20
Lived at 7 Berry Street
Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey
Burnley Express 1st September 1915

COMRADES’ SYMPATHY. LETTERS TO BEREAVED MOTHER. (Burnley Express 1/9/1915)

One of the best known young men at Piccadilly Road School has been killed in action with the local Territorials. Corporal Booth, who would have been 21 years of age this month, had been in the Territorials about 18 months when ordered away for service last August. Notification of his death has been conveyed by comrades, one of whom, named Gregory, wrote: “I suppose by the time you receive this letter you will have got official notification of Harvey’s death. Please allow me to express my deepest sympathy in your sad bereavement and my sorrow at losing so good a pal. From what I gather he was shot in the head yesterday morning whilst in a trench where the Turks and our men were bombarding one another.” A second comrade has written the following: “I heard from a man today that your Harvey was killed, but I can’t say exactly how it happened. I hope you will accept my sympathy and that of all the Springhill boys. We shall all miss him very much.” Corporal Harvey was formerly a beamer at Messrs. Whitham’s Mill