BORN GOOLE 1892. HULL PAL. LIVED IN HULL. SON OF CHARLES & MARY ANN ELIZABETH (GOODWORTH), OF 2 CENTRAL STREET, HULL. A BREWERY BOTTLE WORKER. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED AT SERRE, ON 13TH NOVEMBER 1916, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS MOTHER.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE CHARLES GOODWORTH BOOTH 14/148. Born in 1892 in Goole, Charles was the third of 7 sons to Charles and Mary Ann Booth of 2 Central Street, Hull. A Warehouseman at a Brewery by trade, he enlisted at City Hall on 4th December 1915 jumping before he was pushed just ahead of the Conscription Bill being passed by parliament. Originally enlisting in the 14th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, he transferred to the 12th on his arrival in France on 15th April 1916. He had a spell out of the line at XI Corps Sniping School over the summer but joined again for the last big push of the Somme campaign at Beaumont Hamel. Charles was killed in action in front of the ruins of the village of Serre on 13th November 1916, originally listed as ‘wounded and missing’, words that tell their own story. Like hundreds of thousands of men, it was accepted Charles probably fell wounded and drowned in the mud; but on 8th September 1920 his body was recovered and buried in Serre Road Cemetery No.1; he was 24 years old.
Booth, Charles Goodworth
First name:
CHARLES GOODWORTH
Military Number:
14/148
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
Serre Road Cemetery No.1, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
24
