Lance Corporal 43207 Arnold BOOTH

17th Battalion, Manchester Regiment,formerly 32970, 14th Battalion,Cheshire Regiment

Died of dysentery, Wednesday 26th June 1918, Frieburg PoW Camp Hospital, Germany, Age 22

Home address:

12 Ashton Road, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire

Born:

1896, Hyde, Cheshire

Parents:

Lydia Booth and Ernest Booth
171 Ashton Road, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire

Marital Status:

Single

Occupation:

Painter and Decorator

Enlisted:

Hyde, Cheshire

Remembered:

Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany, plot I, row K, grave 2.

Link to Hyde:

Born in Hyde

Also know as Ernest Arnold Booth.

Died of Dysentery Cardiac Paralysis whilst a prisoner of war at Friebrug camp hospital, Germany. He was buried at Friebrug Military Cemetery, before being relocated to Niederzwehren, which is 280 miles from Freibrugh.

The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his mother:

PEACE PERFECT PEACE