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6922084 Private Kenneth Ernest Booth


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Number: 6922084
Company: HQ
Platoon: -
Section: -
Killed In Action: 20 Sep 1944
T & E Book: 14/16
Para Course: K60

Life Story:

6922084 Private Kenneth Ernest Booth was born on 11th July 1926.

He would have been only 16 years of age when he enlisted in 1943. A letter home from his father (serving in N. Africa with the Kings Royal Rifle Corps) in August 1983 shows that

'...Ken is in a transit camp waiting to join a battalion'.

Ken served in Headquarters Company, 11th Parachute Battalion and took part in the Battle of Arnhem, during Op Market Garden.

Private Ken Booth died on 20th September 1944, two months after his 18th Birthday. He has no known grave and is now commemorated on the Memorial at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, near Nijmegen.






Thanks to R.P. “Bob” Hilton; Diana Andrews; Allan Brown; Andrew Blacklock; Jon Baker; John Howes; Graham Francis; Bob Gerritsen; Darren Wielink; Maarten Lenssen; Judith Minkman; Philip Reinders; Hans den Brok; many 11th Battalion veterans; family, next of kin and friends; staff of the Airborne Museum Hartenstein Oosterbeek; Airborne Assault Museum Duxford; and Gerrit Pijpers OBE without whom this website would not have been possible.