BORN CROWLE 1887. SON OF THOMAS & ADA HARRIET BOOTHMAN LIVED MILL ROAD, CROWLE, LINCS. FAMILY LIVED AT 1, BURTON VILLAS, FIELD STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS), 40, ALASKA STREET, HULL & 166, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). HE WAS A BRICKLAYER, BY TRADE.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ARTHUR THOMAS BOOTHMAN 12/1514. Born in 1887, Arthur was the third of four children to Thomas and Ada Boothman of Mill Road, Crowle, Lincolnshire. The family moved to 1 Burton Villas, Field Street, Hull where Arthur found work as a Bricklayer. When war came he enlisted at City Hall joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. Thomas Boothman died on 19th January 1916 while his son was away serving in Egypt as part of the British Expeditionary Force defending Suez from the Turks. So a telegram landing on her doormat must have been Ada Boothman’s worst nightmare; but land it did. Arthur was killed in action on 24th July 1916 as the Pals took over trenches in Richebourg, St, Vaast from the 17th Sherwood Foresters. He is buried in St. Vaast Post Military Cemetery; he was 28 years old.
