- SURNAME
Booth
- FORENAME
John (James) Charles Macaulay
- UNIT
R.N.V.R. COPP 9
- RANK
Lieutenant
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Mention in Despatches, Croix de Guerre
- PLACE
Normandy (Op.Neptune) 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 09.07.1921, London, UK
father Charles Zachary Macaulay Booth
mother Mary Honora Spring (nee Rice)
educated Eton College, Trinity College
14.11.1951 married Bertha (nee Evans)
4 children (Charles (born 15.01.1953), Antonia (born 29.08.1956), Stephen (born 14.05.1958) and Victoria (born 27.08.1961))
postwar farmer, teacher, farmer
2017 resided Taunton
last surviving COPPIST
died 18.12.2022 Aged 101
WEB LINKS:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jim-booth-obituary-2g0rq0xdjhttps://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2022/december/21/20221212-submariner-jim-pointed-the-way-to-dday-landings
https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/23199047.death-war-hero-jim-booth-survived-claw-hammer-attack/
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