BOOT, Arthur
| Service Number: | 956 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 September 1914, Enlisted at Broadmeadows, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Robin Hoods Chase, Nottingham, England, 29 April 1893 |
| Home Town: | Tatura, Greater Shepparton, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Grosvenor School, Nottingham, England |
| Occupation: | Orchardist |
| Died: | Head wound, At sea on board HS Nevasa, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 27 May 1915, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave, buried at sea Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial at Panel 28 Captain Henderson officiated , Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Tatura R.S.S. & A.I.L.A. Sub-Branch Honour Roll, Tatura St Andrew's Presbyterian Church WW1 Roll of Honor, Tatura War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 956, 7th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Broadmeadows, Victoria | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 956, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 956, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Arrived in Australia aged 20 years
Son of George Arthur Boot and Mary Kate Boot of Sherwoodrise, Nottingham, England
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
While living in England he served in the Territorials' Royal Horse Artillery
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
While living in England he was an apprentice engineer. [1911 census].
His brothers were Leonard with the Red Cross in France in 1916 and George Harold Boot-Lieutenant in the 15th Sherwood Foresters in France in 1916.
He joined the Nottingham Royal Horse Artillery, (T.F.) as a Driver, number 328 on 27th June 1911 and obtained his discharge on 30th September 1913, after which he went to Australia. He enlisted in the 7th Battalion, of the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, on 3rd September 1914 and left with his Battalion on 5th April 1915 from Alexandria for the Dardenelles. He was dangerously wounded in the head in action there on 9th May 1915.
After being evacuated to Alexandria, he was aboard the hospital ship 'Nevasa' on his way to England when he died of those wounds.
Article from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1919 :- Arthur Boot Pte 1076 7th Battalion , 2nd Infantry Brigade Australian Imperial Forces, eldest son of George Arthur Boot of Risley House, 1 Berridge Road East, Sherwood Rise, Nottingham, by his wife Mary Kate daughter of Mark Spink Shaw.
Article published 21st May 1915 in 'The Age' (Melbourne Australia ) :- Private Arthur Boot, reported dangerously wounded, came from Nottingham, England, and was in Victoria six months before the war broke out. He enlisted in the First Expeditionary Force, and was engaged in farming pursuits near Tatura.”
Nottinghamshire war memorials on which Arthur is remembered:
High Pavement School - Photograph shows the original metal memorial which is now at the Nottingham High Pavement Six Form College, it is sited in the main entrance foyer on Chaucer Street, Nottingham.
'Grosvenor School. -The memorial was originally in the school premises on Waterloo Crescent Nottingham but the school was evacuated in the Second World War and eventually transferred to West Bridgford. Its last location was Melton Road. The school closed in 2014 and the memorial’s current whereabouts are unknown. Inscription 'Grosvenor School. In the Great War the following old boys of this school gave up their young lives that England might live (names) Cum comitibus monumentum aere perennius struxerunt.' ('I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze', Horace) Rachel Farrand
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