Clarence Booth

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Clarence

Clarence Booth (1893-1961) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was living in Montreal, Quebec, at the time of his enlistment with the 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles). He arrived in Bologna, France, on 15 September 1915, and his diary begins in the memoranda section preceding the dated pages with a description of a killing he witnessed on 30 September 1915. On 2 June 1916, after a five-month campaign known as Sanctuary Wood or Hill 62 that preceded the Somme, Booth records his own medical diagnosis of "shell shock" while in hospital. Booth was demobilized in 1919 and died on 4 June 1961.