WILFRED WALTER BOOTY
Image from the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – 1918
Born: 14th August 1885, Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk.
Baptised on the 4th October 1885, at St. Mary’s Church, Walsham-le-Willows – family home at Walsham-le-Willows.
Died: 10th January 1918; age 32; died at No. 30 General Hospital, Calais.
Residence: 30, Khartoum Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: Footman to the Marquis of Graham, Easton Park, Wickham Market, Suffolk.
Enlistment Location: Newcastle, Staffordshire.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 21111
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 5th Infantry Base Depot, transferred to (403248) 857th Coy. Labour Coy.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Reference:
II.C.7.
Les Baraques Military Cemetery,
Sangatte,
Pas de Calais,
France.
CENSUS
1891 77, Bulwer Road, Ipswich.
Wilfred was 5 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
John Henry Booty, 34, a Tailor – employer, born Walsham le Willows, Suffolk. Deaf & dumb since birth.
Eliza Anna Booty (nee Cook), 35, born Boxted, Suffolk.
John Henry Booty, 10, born Walsham le Willows.
Albert Edward Booty, 8, born Walsham le Willows – died 1893, Walsham le Willows.
Margaret Ethel Booty, 1, born Walsham le Willows.
1901 77, Bulwer Road, Ipswich.
Wilfred was 15 years old, a Tailor’s Errand Boy. He was living with his parents, siblings & aunts.
John, 43, a Tailor.
Eliza, 45.
Margaret, 11.
George Spencer Booty, 8, born Walsham le Willows.
Priscilla Booty, 6, born Walsham le Willows.
Harry Booty, 3, born Walsham le Willows.
Priscilla Alpe, 32, born Whepstead, Suffolk.
Margaret Cook, 26, a Domestic Servant, born Whepstead.
1911 The Mansion, Easton, Wickham Market, Suffolk.
Wilfred was 24 years old, a Footman. He was 1 of 14 house servants for the Marquis of Graham. The Marquis’s mother-in-law, 58 year old, the Dow Duchess of Hamilton, was head of the household for the census.
At the outbreak of war, The Mansion, with its 27 bedrooms, was converted into a Red Cross Hospital to receive the wounded, who were placed under the care of the Dow Duchess of Hamilton.
On the 25th August 1916, at St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich, 30 year old Wilfred, a Private for the 3rd Suffolks, of 30, Khartoum Road, Ipswich, married 28 year old Winifred Annie Phillips, of 6, Queen’s Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk (late Australia), born 28th February 1884, Greenwich, Kent – third daughter of Samuel John Watson Phillips, a clerk/writer, and Charlotte Phillips (nee Chapman), of 16, Burney Street, Greenwich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Winifred Annie Booty – widow.
Suffolk Regiment:
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