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CRIMEAN VETERAN DEAD
[Welland Tribune, 13 October 1905]
Sergeant Booth, a veteran of the Crimean war, died at his home in British Columbia, last week.
Sergeant Booth enlisted in the British army in 1845, at the age of 18. He was present at Sevastopol and fought all through the Crimean campaign; later in the Kaffir war. After that he served in India until he was discharged in 1866. Since 1868 he has lived in Canada, until 1884 in Brantford, Ont., and since then in British Columbia. On Sunday evening, at the age of 80. He passed away, leaving one less of the grand old veterans of the Crimea to remind us of how the empire looked in the making.
Deceased was an uncle of James B. Stephens of Welland. Mr. Stephens mother and Mr. Booth having been sister and brother.
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