Lot 821
A FIRST WORLD WAR CASUALTY TRIO TO THE ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT.
A trio comprising 1914-15 Star named to L-9131 Pte F.G.Booth R.W.Kent, War Medal and Victory Medal similarly named. Mounted in a frame with a photograph of the recipient and commemorative scroll. Frederick George Booth, born c.1888 in Battle, Sussex was a pre-war regular soldier, he is recorded as serving with the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Probably arriving in Basra, Mesopotamia on the 6th February 1915, he was captured at Kut al Amara on 29th April 1915, one of 13,000 men who became prisoners on that day and held in the camps at Adana near Baghdad. on 26th June 1916 he is reported as believed taken prisoner at Kut-el-Amara, by the 10th of December 1916 this status has been confirmed and on the 6th of February he is reported to have died whilst a prisoner in Turkish hands. He is buried at the Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, his mother, Ellen, chose the words 'Loved and Remembered Always' for his headstone.
