View source for Booth Geoffrey George Regimental Sergeant Major 802321

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|Surname and forenames=Booth Geoffrey George
|Army number=802321
|Rank=WOI
|Decorations=Service Awards.  MBE - see citation attached.
|Date of birth=Born 31/12/1909 at Beverly, East Yorkshire.
|Age=88 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted as a Regular Soldier in the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 12/5/1930 for three years with the Colours and nine years on the Reserve.  He was posted to the 6th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery as a Gunner.  He was posted to the Depot Brigade on 16/11/1933 prior to being transferred to the Corps Reserve on 30/11/1933.  He was enrolled into the Section A Reserve on 20/10/1934 and released on 19/10/1935.  Following the outbreak of War he was recalled to the Colours, mobilised and posted to Ascot on 1/12/1939.  He was transferred to the Corps of Military Police on 11/12/1939.  He served within Scottish Command from 3/12/1941 - presumably following training specific to the RCMP and was then posted to the 49th Division Provost Company on 31/12/1942, probably on the Division's return from Iceland.  He served in Normandy, which is reflected in the citation for his military MBE. Posted to X/02 List 29/6/1945.  Returned to 49th Division Provost Company on 6/7/1945.  Posted to Y List (E) on 13/10/1945.  Released to Class Z Regular Army Reserve on 27/12/1945.
|Company/Battery=49th Division Provost Company.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Company HQ.
|Task or role=Regimental Sergeant Major.
|Joined Brigade=Part of Divisional HQ - supporting the Brigade as necessary.
|Promotions=Appointed Unpaid Lance Corporal 16/12/1939.  Made Acting Corporal 22/1/1940.  Made Acting Sergeant 22/5/1940.  Made Company Sergeant Major 25/4/1941.  Made Acting Regimental Sergeant Major 1/3/1941.  Made War Substantive Regimental Sergeant Major 24/2/1941.  No promotions known beyond WOI.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=His death was registered, at the age of 88, in December 1997, at Bridlington in East Yorkshire.
|Home address=Father - John Booth (1871 - 1945).  Mother - Isobel Read (1870 - 1939).  Lived at 9, Denton Street, Beverly.  Worked as a footman.  Married Elisabeth Ellen Overy on 14/6/1938 at Flamborough.  Lived at "Alysum", 31, Heritage Road, Bridlington. 
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[[File:Citation_image.jpeg|800px|thumb|centre|Citation for RSM Booths award of the MBE.]]

We are grateful to Adam Booth for providing further information about RSM Booth, and also that, fortuitously, that RSM Booth's Service Record in digitised form has now been included within Ancestry.co.uk, from which even more fetail has been extracted.