ASIN: B00LYV861O
Publisher: Deborah Jayne Shores
Pages: 47
Frank Booth was born on the 24th January 1921. He lived at 6 New Gate Holmfirth, Huddersfield West Yorkshire. His father was not named on his birth certificate and gives a clue as to why he writes to Mr & Mrs Booth, rather than Mum & Dad.Before the war worked at Dobroyd mills manufacturing cloth in a small village close to where he was born called Jackson Bridge. He had an eye for the ladies, writing frequently to Margaret’s Hartley & Swift, Helen, Grace & Isabel Fenders! He also played the accordion and loved listening to (and later playing) the guitar. He was 5’ 10” tall and a size 10 in boots, size 15” collar.He was a very brave soldier, involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk; Operation Dynamo (1940) aged only 19. He also fought at the front line in Tunisia; Operation Torch (1942) aged only 21, as detailed in his previously published 1942-43 diary. He starts this 1945 diary in ...
